"What has to be forgiven is not just……" — David F. Wells
"What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God."
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13 Quotes by David F. Wells
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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…
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There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state…
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The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is…
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Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the…
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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil…
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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…
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What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing 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…
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In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly…
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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch…
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Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble"…
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The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its…
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More Choices Quotes
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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