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

Erwin W. Lutzer

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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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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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How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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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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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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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 does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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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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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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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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The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.
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We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
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Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
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