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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Timothy Keller

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Become Christ Like Suffer
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
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
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Bride Good Groom Jesus Men Unless
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
It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Away Down Impossible Indifferent Jesus Met Offended Real Wonder
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed
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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Afraid Anxious Give God Look Need Say Son
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
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Beautiful Christianity God Obey Religion Useful
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Appreciate Deserve God Grace Offer People Relentlessly Save Seek
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Infallible Integrity Jesus Life Prayer Private Spiritual Test
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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Belief Disagree People Tolerance Treat
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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Careful Elevate Feel Judge Judging Moral Preference Standard Superior

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