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In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their…
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That…
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In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest…
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To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because…
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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
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Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
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We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
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Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
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Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet…
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By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to…
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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything…
— Francis Chan
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When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters,…
— Rick Warren
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If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is…
— Os Guinness
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At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in…
— Pope Francis
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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our…
— Erwin McManus
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Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently…
— Ivan Illich
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes…
— Pope Francis
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So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
— Francis Schaeffer
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
— Felix Adler
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