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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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After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If following Christ has never cost you anything, you're not following Him.
— Tim Conway
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Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
— Bob Goff
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If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.
— Beth Moore
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Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that…
— N. T. Wright
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Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving…
— R. Kent Hughes
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Following Christ is a daily thing, not just a one-time thing
— Mike Fisher
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My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand,…
— Anne Rice
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Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you…
— Os Guinness
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