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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.
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Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.
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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
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The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.
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Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.
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Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!
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Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.
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Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
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Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.
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