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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Timothy Keller

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Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.
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I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.
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Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
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Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
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Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
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The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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