"Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God."
- Timothy Keller
Quotes
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart form Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
- C.S. Lewis
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"If you do not believe in regeneration, if you do not see its utter absolute necessity, then I do not see that you have any right to regard yourself as a Christian. If you do not see that you are so lost that nothing but receiving new life from God can reconcile you and take you to heaven, then you are lacking at a vital point, a point that is integral and belongs to the very integrity of faith."
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
- D.A. Carson
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"We are not called to be defenders of the Truth but to live the Truth, which is Truth's best defense."
~Mabel Boggs Sweet
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"Jesus didn't come to tell us the answer to the questions of life, he came to be the answer."
- Timothy Keller
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"Let's stop twisting the story of Joseph and Mary going to Bethlehem (Luke 2:1-7) into a refugee story, and start telling the story of Joseph and Mary fleeing with Jesus to Egypt as refugees(Matthew 2:13-18)."
- Y. Knott