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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer 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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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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…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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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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