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- We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God.…
- Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
- What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate…
- Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this…
- When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue…
- Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
- God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose
- God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to…
- No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word…
- As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
- When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
- And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
- The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.
- The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we…
- So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only…
- While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
- Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and…
- We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.
- Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
- For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of…
- We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
- The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
- What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God?…
- If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
- The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong