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When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Timothy Keller

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We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.
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There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
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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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A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
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God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
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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.
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If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
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Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
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