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- God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us…
- Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us…
- You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for…
- If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.
- When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love…
- God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
- Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
- The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
- If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone…
- The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability…
- The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
- We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our…
- The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and…
- The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus,…
- Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel…
- Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
- Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of…
- Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of…
- The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life.…
- Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
- Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
- My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
- Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
- Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves,…
- When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for…
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- 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