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" Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. "

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" God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine. "

" The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. "

" The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. "

" You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. "

" You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. "

" Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. "

" When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' "

" My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. "

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. "

" Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. "

" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "

" I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors. "

" Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! "

" There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. "

" The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. "

" God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. "

" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "

" I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. "

" God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that. "

" You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation. "

" God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. "

" When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. "

" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "

" The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. "

" Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. "

" I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me. "

" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. "

" Sin carries in it its own misery. "

" Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. "