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Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

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Kevin DeYoung
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: January 1
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Theologian
Christianity
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Doctrine

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If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.
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Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
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The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.
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God's timing is rarely our timing.
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The next time someone tells you, The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites. You can respond, You don't even know the half of it.
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If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?
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No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
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For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.
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There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
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It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
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Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.
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The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.
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If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.
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We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.
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