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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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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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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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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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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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We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
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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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Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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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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God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
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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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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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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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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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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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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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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
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A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.
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