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The essence of sin is self-will—placing ourselves at the center of our lives instead of Christ.

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—...

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It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receiv...

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Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin.

You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to poi...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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We can’t go on much longer morally. We can’t go on much longer scientifically. The technology that w...

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What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is ...

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Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ....

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When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously ...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The essence of sin is self-will—placing ourselves at the center of our lives instead of Christ.

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—...

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It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receiv...

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Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin.

You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to poi...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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We can’t go on much longer morally. We can’t go on much longer scientifically. The technology that w...

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What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is ...

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Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God...

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Brennan ManningThe Furious Longing of God

There are no real personalities apart from God. Until you have given up your self to Him you will no...

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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply no...

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The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be ...

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The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - re...

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...

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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...

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We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

In Him we have peace, in Him we have power; Preserved by His grace, throughout the dark hour; In all...

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They here shall be redeemed from sin,Shall here put on their glorious dress,Fine linen, pure, and wh...

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All heroes are shadows of Christ

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe G...

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To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

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Cornel WestDemocracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget t...

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecut...

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Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of s...

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

The temptation of Christ was harder, unspeakably harder, than the temptation of Adam; for Adam carri...

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Dietrich BonhoefferCreation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it co...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cr...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, an...

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[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men a...

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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ...

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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and rea...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...

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Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Ch...

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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...

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In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...

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Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...

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A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...

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When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...

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He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings;...

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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...

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Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...

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Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of lov...

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What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a ...

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I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, beca...

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The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter ...

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She was simply a young woman who believed that the man called Jesus Christ is a real person, such as...

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Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

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Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

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As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...

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Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not be...

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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the...

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Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now cho...

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To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea...

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In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...

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Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable ...

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Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps...

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What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic...

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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

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You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...

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Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everla...

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Without conversion of heart we cannot serve God on earth. We have naturally neither faith, nor fear,...

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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can und...

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Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be ...

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We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, i...

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Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...

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Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "l...

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J. C. RyleJohn (Expository Thoughts on the Gospels): Vol. 1

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about he...

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We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) b...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a ...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.