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    Brennan Manning
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    1 Peter 4:8, Acts 7:, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Jesus said you are to love one another as I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguished gift of yourself, a love that forgives seven times seven, that keeps no score of wro...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Ephesians 4:2-3, Colossians 3:12-13, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, 2 Peter 3:9, Psalm 103:8, 1 Timothy 1:16
    Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious tha...

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    Alexander MacLaren
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    Romans 13:14, Ephesians 4:22
    It takes a lifetime to fathom Jesus; it takes a lifetime to appropriate Jesus, it takes a lifetime to be clothed with Jesus. And the question comes to each of us, have we ‘put off the old man with his...

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    Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
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    Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:2, 1 Peter 5:5-6, James 4:10, Colossians 3:12, John 13:14-15
    [Humility is] to become like Jesus in his willingness to choose the hidden way of love rather than the way of power.

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    Desmond Tutu
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    Hebrews 10:17, Matthew 18:21-22, 1 John 1:9, Romans 12:17-19, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, Luke 23:34
    Well, from the paradigm that Jesus provided, as he was being crucified, he said, “Father, forgive them.” It wasn’t as if he was talking about something that might happen. He was actually experiencing ...

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    Andrew Murray
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    1 Corinthians 13:4-5, Luke 14:11, Colossians 3:12-13, Romans 12:3, James 3:13, Ephesians 4:2
    The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

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    Millard Erickson
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    Philippians 2:3, Luke 14:11, Ephesians 4:2, Mark 9:35, James 4:10
    What he was attempting to instill in his disciples was the attitude of a servant: humility and a willingness to put others ahead of oneself. In that culture, washing the feet of others would symbolize...

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    Gordon T. Smith
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    Exodus 35:30-35 , Proverbs 31:10-31 , Matthew 25:14-30, Ephesians 4:28, 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, Psalm 90:17
    An important aspect of being an image bearer of God is to work and to create value by serving others within our collaborative economic system.

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    1 Peter 2:9, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Ephesians 4:22-24, 1 Thessalonians 4:7, Hebrews 12:14, 1 Peter 1:15-16
    The hole in our holiness is that we don’t really care much about it. Passionate exhortation to pursue gospel-driven holiness is barely heard in most of our churches. It’s not that we don’t talk about ...

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    John Stott
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    Matthew 6:14-15, James 2:13, Micah 6:8, Luke 6:36-37, Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:12-13
    If I withhold mercy, I have lost touch with the gospel. I have lost touch with God’s undeserved kindness and pardon.

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    Bill Hull
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Acts 9:1-19, Mark 10:17-22, Ephesians 4:1-2, John 8:31-32, Luke 9:23, Matthew 28:18-20
    All who are called to salvation are called to discipleship, no exceptions, no excuses!

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    Thomas Keating
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    Ephesians 4:32, Romans 12:10, Colossians 3:12-14, Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:3-4
    The kingdom is present not in grandiose accomplishments, but in showing practical love in humble ways, day after day, and in refusing to allow our failures and disappointments to hide God’s love from ...

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Matthew 2:1-12, Titus 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 8:12, Matthew 5:3-10, Romans 12:2, Galatians 5:1, Genesis 12:1-4, Ephesians 4:22-24, Isaiah 1:18
    Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him Who freed me From the self that I have been. Make me pure, Lord: Thou art holy...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    Galatians 2:11-14, Jonah 3:4, Proverbs 3:3-4, Colossians 4:6, Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:15, John 1:14
    Truth-oriented Christians love studying Scripture and theology. But sometimes they’re quick to judge and slow to forgive. They’re strong on truth, weak on grace. Grace-oriented Christians love forgive...

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    F. F. Bruce
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    1 Peter 2:21-23, Philippians 2:5-8, 1 John 2:6, Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Colossians 3:12-13, Hebrews 12:2, Matthew 16:24, Ephesians 5:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:32, Matthew 18:21-22
    The Christian's new life is a life of love, forgiveness, and kindness, modeled after the example of Christ.

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    John Irving
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    Mark 11:25, James 5:16, Romans 12:17-19, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The man who refuses to forgive destroys the bridge over which he himself must cross.

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 2:9, Galatians 6:2, Colossians 3:16, Romans 12:4-5, Acts 2:42-47, Ephesians 4:15-16
    Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply p...

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    John Mark Comer
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    1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5-10, 1 Peter 4:1-2, Ephesians 5:1-2, Galatians 4:19, Romans 8:29, 1 John 2:6, 1 Corinthians 11:1, John 13:13-17, Ephesians 4:22-24, Matthew 5:16
    The more like Jesus we are, and the more like the image of God we are, the more people see of God’s glory.

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    Thomas Merton
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    Ephesians 4:2-3, Matthew 5:9, Proverbs 15:1, 2 Timothy 2:24-25, Philippians 2:3-4, James 1:19-20, Colossians 4:6
    The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this ca...

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    John Oxenham
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    1 Peter 4:8, Luke 10:25-37, Ephesians 4:32, John 3:16, 1 John 4:7-8, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Love ever gives, Forgives, outlives, And ever stands with open hands, And while it lives it gives. For this is love’s prerogative, To give – and give – and give.

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    Rupi Kaur
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    1 John 2:9-11, Ephesians 4:31, Proverbs 10:12, Luke 6:27-28, 1 John 3:14-15
    To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice.

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    Minucius Felix
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    1 Peter 4:8, 1 Samuel 18:20, Acts 2:42-47, Ephesians 4:2-3, Romans 12:10, 1 John 4:20-21
    Our bond, which you resent, consists in mutual love, for we know not how to hate; we call ourselves ‘brethren’ to which you object, as members of one family in God, as partners in one faith, as joint ...

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    John Newton
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    Matthew 22:37-39, James 4:10, 1 John 4:7-8, Ephesians 4:2, Philippians 2:3-4, Colossians 3:12-14
    I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

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    Mark Buchanan
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    Colossians 3:23-24, Philippians 2:14-15, Psalm 90:17, James 1:26, Ephesians 4:29, Hebrews 13:15
    Next time you’re tempted to complain about your work, praise God for it instead. Next time you open your mouth to gossip about people you work with or smear those you work for, stop yourself and turn ...

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    Karl Menninger
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 51:3-4, Ephesians 4:31-32, Proverbs 6:16-19, Isaiah 59:2
    The clergyman cannot minimize sin and maintain his proper role in our culture’. For sin is ‘an implicitly aggressive quality – a ruthlessness, a hurting, a breaking away from God and from the rest of ...

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    W. H. Auden
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    Colossians 3:13, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:2, 1 John 4:19, Romans 5:8, Matthew 22:37-39
    You shall love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    1 Corinthians 13:4-5, Romans 12:9-10, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, 1 Peter 4:8, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

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    Peter J. Leithart
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    Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 4:1-6, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Galatians 5:22, John 14:17
    Follow the Spirit. Walk in the rhythm of the Spirit. Sing in the Spirit. Pray with the Spirit. Be filled with the Spirit. Sow to the Spirit. Reap from the Spirit. Preserve the unity of the Spirit. Be ...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Matthew 18:21-22, John 21:15-17, Matthew 18:21-35, 1 John 1:9, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, Ephesians 4:32
    Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is th...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Genesis 27:41, Exodus 15:23-25 , Job 10:1, Ephesians 4:31 , Hebrews 12:15 , Psalm 73:21-22
    To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you...
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