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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

Timothy Keller

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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