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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Timothy Keller

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Actual Faith Grace Need Object Prerequisite Receiving Save
Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
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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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Bible Good Life Live Much Purpose Show
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Change Done Jesus Key Order Question
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Certain God Suffer Unbearable With You
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Adversity Important Maintain Midst More Nothing Painful Purpose
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Besides Bible Building Every Identity Jesus One Problem Real Say Something
We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash
…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Basic Good Jesus Life Live Morality Most Person Premise Religion Upright Wrong

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