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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
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Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
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God made everything else but man after its kind' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
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Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual fix for the day.
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The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
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No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
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