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    Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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    Hebrews 12:10, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 34:5, Psalm 121:1-2, Numbers 21:8-9, John 3:14-15, Micah 7:7
    For every one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.

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    J. C. Ryle
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    1 Peter 1:2, Romans 8:29, Ephesians 1:4, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 12:10
    We must be holy, because this is one grand end and purpose for which Christ came into the world. . . . Jesus is a complete Saviour. He does not merely take away the guilt of a believer’s sin, he does ...

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    Jack Miller
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    Hebrews 12:2, Colossians 2:6-7, 2 Corinthians 11:3, John 15:5, Philippians 3:8-9
    When you turn to Christ, you don't have a repentance apart from Christ, you just have Christ. Therefore, don't seek repentance or faith as such but seek Christ. When you have Christ you have r...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Matthew 10:16, 2 Timothy 3:12, Romans 5:10, Hebrews 12:2-3, Luke 6:22
    Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring ...

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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 F. Walvoord
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    Hebrews 12:2, John 17:5, Romans 8:3, Isaiah 53:5, Hebrews 2:14-15
    To achieve the divine purpose of becoming the Savior, the divine glory needed to be veiled. Christ voluntarily, moment by moment, submitted to human limitations apart from sin. The humiliation was tem...

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    James Merritt
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    Colossians 1:15-17, Matthew 16:13-17, Mark 10:25-27, John 3:1-10, Matthew 5:43-44, Jeremiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:2
    As Tim Stafford writes, Jesus has become “deceptively familiar. People think they know all about him, so they never look at him. When they finally do, they are surprised at what they find. Jesus may s...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Colossians 3:2, Isaiah 26:3, Hebrews 12:1-3, Psalm 16:8, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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    Athanasius of Alexandria
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    John 10:17-18, Philippians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Hebrews 12:2, Colossians 2:15, 1 Peter 3:18
    He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by...

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    Dallas Willard
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    Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, Joshua 1:9, Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Timothy 1:7, Ephesians 6:10-11
    This is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its messa...

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Hebrews 12:14
    Simply put, God’s will for your life is that you be holy. That you live a life of set-apartness. That, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you strive for utter purity of character (Heb. 12:14). Every adm...

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    Alexander MacLaren
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    Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 2:24, Colossians 1:19-20, Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 2:2, Philippians 2:6-8, Galatians 4:4-5
    The cross is the center of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 7:18-19, James 4:8, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Psalm 51:2-3
    It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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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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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    1 John 3:3, Colossians 3:5, Hebrews 12:14, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Romans 12:1-2
    The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israe...

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    John Ortberg
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    Isaiah 9:6, Hebrews 12:2, John 1:14, Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 4:35-41, John 4:4-26
    Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

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    James Bryan Smith
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    John 3:16-17, Proverbs 3:11-12, 1 John 4:9-10, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:31, Hebrews 12:5-6
    God is against my sin because he is for me.

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    Hebrews 12:11, Galatians 6:1, 2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Peter 4:16, John 15:18-19, 2 Timothy 3:12
    The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

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    Lao-tze
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    Luke 9:23, Galatians 6:9, Psalm 37:23, Hebrews 12:1, Philippians 3:13-14
    The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step.

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    Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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    Matthew 19:29, Hebrews 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:18, Matthew 16:25-26, Luke 9:23-24
    Entering the kingdom is just like this: it’s a thing of great joy and great cost. The cost is clear, but nothing is compared with what is being gained.

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    Martin Luther
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    2 Peter 3:18, Hebrews 12:1-2, 1 Peter 2:2, Colossians 3:10, Romans 12:2
    This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing towar...

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Colossians 1:12-13, Ephesians 5:1-2, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Romans 14:17, Hebrews 12:14
    Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.

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    Max Lucado
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    John 21:15-19, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 9:9-13, Ephesians 2:4-5, Hebrews 12:10-11
    God loves you just as you are but too much to leave you that way.

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    Gustav Mahler
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    2 Timothy 1:6-7, Psalm 78:4, Hebrews 12:28-29, 1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.

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    George Müller
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    1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 12:11, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4
    If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

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    Nancy Ortberg
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    Isaiah 43:2, Hebrews 12:11, Psalm 46:1, 2 Timothy 1:7-8, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 1:6-7
    Someone once said that faith is not a personal possession until you have suffered. That person understood that the very nature of faith requires the grit and courage to be in the dark so you can event...

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    Gregory of Nyssa
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    2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 34:5, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 10:11, Isaiah 54:4, Psalm 139:14
    Our godlike beauty is hidden beneath curtains of shame.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Philippians 4:19, Matthew 10:29-31, Psalm 10:17, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Hebrews 12:10
    Five fatherly responsibilities that God has assumed toward His children: 1. God provides for us (Phil. 4:19). 2. God protects (Mt. 10:29-31). 3. God encourages us (Psm. 10:17). 4. God comforts us (2 C...

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    Dallas Willard
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    1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Isaiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:28, 2 Corinthians 3:18
    To handle the things of God without worship is always to falsify them.
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