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" God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations. "

Tullian Tchividjian

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" When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done. "

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" There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. "

" Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. "

" The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. "

" Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. "

" Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. "

" Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. "

" Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. "

" I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively. "

" Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. "

" Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin. "

" The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness. "

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" Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved. "

" I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. "

" There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. "

" My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. "

" Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. "

" We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out. "

" At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another. "

" The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. "

" The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom. "

" The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives. "

" A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance. "

" Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. "

" Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have. "

" Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. "

" There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. "

" Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. "