Sweet Quotes That Help Me Grow Closer To King Jesus 21

• Every treasure on this earth says,
  “Give your life to purchase me.”
  Jesus says “I’m the one treasure
  who died to purchase you.”
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  Tim Keller
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• Community and friendship
  means commitment to people
  beyond what you are getting out of it.
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  Tim Keller
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• Everyone says they want community and friendship.
  But mention accountability or commitment to people,
  and they run the other way.
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  Tim Keller
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• Since all that I meet shall work for my good
  the bitter is sweet; the medicine is food
  though painful at present, ’twill cease before long
  and then, oh!, how pleasant the conqueror song!
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  John Newton
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• Worship is seeing what God is worth
  and giving him what he’s worth.
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  Tim Keller
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• Oh, to be wholly Yours!
  To have no thought closed from Your Spirit,
  no act other than what You approve,
  no word inconsistent with Your perfect love,
  no purpose in which You cannot have a part.F.B. Meyer
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• We must let our marriages reveal Christ,
  not replace Christ.
  And if we are not married but wish to be,
  we should remember
  that we already have the only spousal love
  that will truly fulfill.
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  Tim Keller
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• “The prosperity gospel will not make anybody praise Jesus.
  It will make people praise prosperity.”
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  John Piper
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• Husbands, the affair you think is finally “true love”
  is the coffin
  in which you will bury your precious family.
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  DesiringGod.org
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• Before I went to seminary, so many people told me
  to guard my faith
  from getting all academic and dry.
  No one told me that writing theology papers
  and diagramming Greek sentences
  and reading old dense books
  would make me fall so much more deeply in love with God.
  But it has.
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  Kaitlyn Scheiss
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• Christianity is not about being nice.
  It’s about being new.
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  Tim Keller
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• Love is a vibe that comes out in our preaching…
  or not.
  Loving the people you are speaking to
  is an important part of homiletics.
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  Dave Jacobs
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• “Let’s turn it up to 11” -My anxiety today.
  “Fine, I’ll go to a 12.” -the gospel.
  #ChristOverFear
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  Mike Leake
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• In creation, God did all the work & rested.
  In redemption, God did all the work
  so we could rest.
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  Tim Keller
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• “Religious people find God useful.
  Growing Christians find God beautiful.”
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  Tim Keller
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• “This is true religion,
  to approve what God approves,
  to hate what he hates,
  and to delight in what delights him.”
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  Charles Hodge
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• The thought is full of consolation,
  that He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation,
  has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.
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  Charles Spurgeon
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• The greatest nightmare
  of the approval addict is rejection;
  of the power addict, humiliation;
  of the comfort addict, suffering;
  and of the control addict, uncertainty.
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  Tim Keller
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• Fruits of Salvation:
  “Sense of sin and deep hatred of it,
  faith in Christ and love to Him,
  delight in holiness and longing after more of it,
  love for God’s people
  and distaste for the things of the world –
  these are the signs and evidences
  which always accompany conversion.”
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  J.C. Ryle
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• “If God’s desire for his own glory
  offers you your greatest possible happiness,
  it’s not egomania.
  It’s love.”
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  John Piper
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• “We have too often been content with zeal for orthodoxy [right belief] –
  and have neglected the sober realities
  of daily practical godliness.”
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  J. C. Ryle
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• It is certain that thoughts
  are the eggs of sin.
  .
  Charles Spurgeon
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• If we look to human beings
  more than to God
  for our worth & value,
  we will be trapped
  by anxiety,
  by an overneed to please,
  by the inability to withdraw from exploitative relationships,
  by the inability to take criticism,
  & by a cowardice that makes us unable to confront others.
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  Tim Keller
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• The first concern of a true church
  is not to make people happy
  but to bring God glory.
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  Jeremy Walker
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• God is in control,
  but he doesn’t want us to
  lean on a shovel
  and pray for a hole.
  .
  Tommy Nelson
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• “If I say hard things,
  it is not because I do not love you.
  I write as I do,
  because I desire your salvation.
  He is your best friend who tells you the most truth.
  Truth must be spoken, however condemning it may be.”
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  J.C. Ryle
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• “Some culture warriors on the right
  have claimed recently that “social justice”
  is code for secular humanism;
  its very mention should raise “Red” flags.
  Part of that is due to the tendency sometimes
  to separate the Great Commission from the Great Commandment.” @MichaelHorton_
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• ‘Words without thoughts never to heaven go,’
  says the King in Hamlet.
  Simply to say prayers is not to pray;
  otherwise a team of properly trained parrots
  would serve as well as men.
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  C.S. Lewis
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• Like mushrooms grown without light,
  people without the light of truth
  grow in circles
  and back in on
  and devour themselves
  and others.
  .
  Nic Gibson
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• We are not called to be accepted,
  we are called to glorify God.
  .
  Mailon
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• Do not let that which is urgent
  take the place
  of what is important
  in your life.
  .
  Mailon
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• It is a great thing to be well furnished
  by meditation and prayer before setting out;
  it makes you a far more full and faithful witness.
  .
  Robert Murray M’Cheyne