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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.

Timothy Keller

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
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Cross Judge Judgment Place Take
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Discover Look One Real Spend Think Time You
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
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
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
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
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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All Cause God Human Problem Separation Symptom Ultimate
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
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
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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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
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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Accept Dare Hope Imagine More Sinful
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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Access Darken Heart Leave Make Suffer Wise

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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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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