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Quotes That Are Too Long For Twitter (Or Not)

The gospel message says: “You don’t live in a mechanistic world ruled by necessity; you don’t live in a random world ruled by chance; you live in a world ruled by the God of Exodus and Easter. He will do things in you that neither you nor your friends would have supposed possible.”
Eugene H. Peterson, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work (William B. Eerdmans, 1992), p. 175

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Here’s the gospel: you’re more sinful than you ever dared believe; you’re more loved than you ever dared hope. —Tim Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC

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One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is that those who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him. –George MacDonald

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The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day “evangelist.” He announces a Saviour from hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
… A. W. Pink (1886-1952), Studies on Saving Faith,
Swengel, Pa.: Reiner Publications, 1932, p. 9-10

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Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we’re only talking about it. … Charles F. Banning
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“We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the Future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.”
Wormwood to his apprentice
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. —G. K. Chesterton.

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There is endless room for rebellion against ourselves — George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, Second Series, Man’s Difficulty Concerning Prayer

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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it. — George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, Second Series, Life