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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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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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Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
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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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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.
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If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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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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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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We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.
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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
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Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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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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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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Each temptation leaves us better or worse neutrality is impossible.
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