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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
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