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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.
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Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.
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Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.
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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
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Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
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The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
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The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.
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I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'
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To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
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