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If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.
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As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
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Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'
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The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
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Give God what's right, not what's left!
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Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.
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God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.
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A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.
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Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.
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There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
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If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
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If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
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Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell
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The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.
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It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.
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You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.
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Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.
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If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
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God grades on the Cross not on the curve.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.