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You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

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If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
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Religion says, 'I obey therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.
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