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“Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command...”
“Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.”
“Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.”
“Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)”
“In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.”
“The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.”
“Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in control. As we fall, we see one and only one tree that is growing out from t...”
“I woke up to singing and found myself singing too”
“The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.”
“Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.”
“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely dclass.”
“Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.”
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is often t...”
“To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“Many today insist that music is amoral, that there is nothing innately good or bad about music itself. They say it is neutral, and only its use determines whether it is good or evil. To a degree th...”
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the empire were inseparably connected at every...”
“All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.”
“You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.”
“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”
“Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.”
