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> [God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/god-s-love-is-his-holiness-reaching-out-to-sinners-grace-is-but-the/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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## More by David F. Wells

> [In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/in-our-postmodern-culture-which-is-tv-dominated-image-sensitive-and/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

> [“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/descartes-argued-i-think-therefore-i-am-and-people-after-freud/)

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> [Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/humility-has-nothing-to-do-with-depreciating-ourselves-and-our-gifts/)

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> [Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/truth-is-now-simply-a-matter-of-etiquette-it-has-no-authority-no/)

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> [“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/as-jonathan-edwards-observed-a-long-time-ago-we-act-on-our-strongest/)

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> [“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/our-world-is-being-shaken-to-its-very-foundations-instead-of-offering/)

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> [What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/what-has-to-be-forgiven-is-not-just-what-we-do-but-who-we-are-not/)

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> [“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/in-fact-when-we-listen-to-the-church-today-at-least-in-the-west-we/)

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> [Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/evil-by-its-very-nature-opposes-the-purposes-of-god-but-god-in-his/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

> [The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/the-disappearance-of-theology-from-the-life-of-the-church-and-the/)

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> [Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/many-of-those-whose-task-it-is-to-broker-the-truth-of-god-to-the/)

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> [God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/god-s-holiness-then-is-not-only-the-opposite-of-evil-it-is-the/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

> [There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/there-is-a-breeze-blowing-i-see-it-in-the-deep-discontent-that-is/)

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> [What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/what-is-to-be-gained-if-we-are-so-intent-in-reaching-out-to-the/)

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> [We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/we-are-called-to-see-that-the-church-does-not-adapt-its-thinking-to/)

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