Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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