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    Gerald G. May
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    Genesis 3:6, Ecclesiastes 1:8, Romans 7:14-25, Galatians 5:16-21, Psalm 16:21
    To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 59:2, 2 Peter 2:19, John 8:34, Romans 7:18-19, Proverbs 5:22
    Sin is a suicidal action of the will upon itself. It is like taking an addicting drug. At first it may feel wonderful, but every time it gets harder to not do it again.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.

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    Stonewall Jackson
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    Romans 14:21, Galatians 5:19-21, 1 Peter 5:8, Proverbs 23:29-32, 1 Corinthians 6:10
    I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

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    Brennan Manning
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    Colossians 3:2, Philippians 3:20, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 7:19
    Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

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    David Peterson
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    1 Corinthians 13:1-3, Galatians 5:6, Hebrews 11:6, Micah 6:8, 1 Samuel 15:
    The first step in backsliding is to put one's service for Christ ahead of one's love for Christ.

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    Henry Fairlie
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    Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20
    If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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    Jonathan Haidt
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    Galatians 5:14-15, John 8:32, Micah 6:8, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 12:2, James 3:17
    People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.

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    John Calvin
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    Exodus 32:, Jeremiah 17:1-4, Exodus 20:3-6, Psalm 115:1-8, Romans 1:21-23, Galatians 4:8-9, Galatians 5:19-21
    Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Colossians 3:23-24, Ephesians 5:21, Romans 12:10, Galatians 5:13, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, John 13:14-15
    Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Galatians 5:14, Luke 10:25-37, John 13:34-35, 1 John 3:18, Ephesians 5:1-2, 1 Corinthians 14:1
    Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does.

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    Mark Batterson
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    Hebrews 13:16, Matthew 25:40, 1 Peter 2:12, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 5:16, James 2:17, James 4:17
    We fixate on sins of commission far too much. We practice holiness by subtraction-don't do this, don't do that, and you're okay. The problem with that is this: you can do nothing wrong and...

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    Dan B. Allender
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    Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 26:9, James 1:14-15, Philippians 1:23, Galatians 5:17, Romans 7:23
    Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lov...

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    Chuck DeGroat
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    Colossians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, 1 John 2:16, James 1:14-15, Romans 8:1-2, Galatians 5:16-17
    The early church fathers named the primary sin patterns “passions,” borrowing a Latin term that could also be translated “sufferings ” As we live out a unique pattern or “face” of sin, we begin to thi...

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    Luke Norsworthy
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    1 Peter 2:2, Colossians 2:6-7, Philippians 3:12-14, Ephesians 4:15, Galatians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Romans 12:2
    For some, faith begins with a hard shell, a rigid set of answers and platitudes that keep them safe but eventually prevent them from growing into who they could be. The system that was initially prote...

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    Desmond Tutu
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    John 13:35, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Romans 14:13, Isaiah 58:6-7, Galatians 5:13, Micah 6:8, Matthew 23:27
    Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.

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    Jane Austen
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    1 John 3:17, Luke 9:23, 1 Corinthians 10:24, Romans 12:10, James 3:16, Galatians 5:16
    “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Romans 12:9-10, Luke 19:1-10, John 4:1-26, Galatians 5:14, Matthew 22:37-40, 1 John 4:20-21, John 13:34-35
    We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to makes us love one another.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Matthew 6:13, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ezekiel 36:26, Jeremiah 17:14, Psalm 139:23-24, Galatians 5:16, Psalm 51:10
    Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
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    James 4:7-8, 1 John 1:9, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 51:10, Romans 8:1-2, Galatians 5:16-17
    "At the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most dreadful shuddering…I looked down…I was once more Edward Hyde."

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    Herb Caen
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    Ezekiel 36:26-27, Jonah 3:1-10, Proverbs 16:18, Psalm 51:10-12, John 3:3 , Galatians 5:22-23
    The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

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    Christian Wiman
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    Ephesians 3:16-17, Galatians 5:16-17, Acts 2:4, Romans 8:14, 1 John 4:13, John 15:26
    The immortal Spirit . . . is forever tugging us toward him.

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    Colossians 1:10, 1 John 3:18, Titus 3:8, John 15:5, Galatians 5:6
    Faith and good works are both necessary. But one is the root and the other the fruit.

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    Austin Fischer
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    1 John 3:23, Romans 5:5, Colossians 3:14, 1 John 4:18, Galatians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 13:13
    Faith is not the absence of doubt. Faith is the presence of love.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 7:15-20, Proverbs 20:9, James 4:17, Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

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    Dallas Willard
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    Titus 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Proverbs 3:3-4, 1 Peter 3:4, Galatians 5:22-23
    [Beauty] “is goodness made manifest to the senses.

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    John C. Maxwell
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    Galatians 5:22-23, Matthew 5:44, Colossians 3:12-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Romans 12:2, James 1:2-4
    Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

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    Andrew Murray
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    1 John 3:18, Ruth 1:16, Acts 2:42-47, James 2:14-17, Galatians 5:14, John 13:34-35, 1 John 4:20-21
    Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays.

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    Amitava Dasgupta
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    Romans 14:21, Proverbs 31:4-5, Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Timothy 5:23, Proverbs 23:29-30
    Many studies have concluded that moderate drinkers live longer than nondrinkers and enjoy a better quality of health.

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    Symeon the New Theologian
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    Matthew 11:29, Galatians 5:16-17, 1 Peter 3:9, James 1:19-20, Romans 12:19
    A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humi...
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