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Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.
The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.
All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.