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    Charles Colson
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    Galatians 2:20, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 53:5, Romans 8:28, Matthew 16:24-25
    It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. T...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Proverbs 22:4, Exodus 3:11-12, Isaiah 53:3-5, Philippians 2:5-9, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Psalm 34:18-19
    Where there’s humility there is majesty; where there’s weakness, there’s might; where there is death, there’s life. If you want to get these things don’t disdain those.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Philippians 2:5-8, Isaiah 53:2-3, Luke 22:27, Mark 10:45, John 13:14-15
    St. Paul tells us that Jesus Christ, the revelation of God become human, “set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It wa...

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    John Stott
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    John 1:29, 1 Peter 2:24, Galatians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:5
    The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We…put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God…puts himsel...

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    Sam Allberry
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    Genesis 3:, Philippians 2:6-8, Romans 5:8, Isaiah 53:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:21
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to ...

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    Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
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    2 Corinthians 4:17, Romans 8:18, 1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5, Psalm 127:3, Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 3:11
    The mystery of perfection as an aspect of beauty is its transcendence. It points to a glory beyond itself. I knew that when I held my children, I didn’t simply cradle flesh and blood. I held a living ...

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    John Stott
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    Galatians 3:13, Ephesians 2:8-9, John 3:16, 1 Peter 2:24, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:5, Romans 3:23
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for Man.

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    Jürgen Moltmann
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    Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 5:7-9, Isaiah 53:1-12, 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 3:18, Matthew 27:57-75, Matthew 28:, Mark 14:43-65, Mark 15:, Luke 23:26-56, John 19:1-37, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 8:3
    A God who cannot suffer is poorer than any human. For a God who is incapable of suffering is a being who cannot be involved. Suffering and injustice do not affect him. And because he is so completely ...

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    Source Unknown
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    Luke 2:7, Matthew 8:20, Matthew 27:57-60, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Isaiah 53:2-3, Matthew 6:19-20
    His poverty was so great that He was born in another man's house, and buried in another man's tomb.

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    Oswald Chambers
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    1 John 2:2, Hebrews 10:10, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Isaiah 53:5
    We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God and for the unfathomable depth of His forgetting i...

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    Chris Rice
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    Luke 2:6-7, Matthew 8:16-17, Isaiah 53:5, Luke 2:34-35, Matthew 2:11, Matthew 2:13-15, Matthew 26:26-28
    Fragile finger sent to heal us Tender brow prepared for thorn Tiny heart whose blood will save us Unto us is born

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    2 Corinthians 7:10, Isaiah 53:5, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-19
    This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 53:6, Luke 5:31-32, 1 John 4:10, Titus 3:5, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 Timothy 1:15
    Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature th...

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    Athanasius of Alexandria
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    Isaiah 53:5, Colossians 1:19-20, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Hebrews 2:14-15, 1 John 4:9-10
    It was our sorry case that caused the Word to come down, our transgression that called out His love for us, so that He made haste to help us and to appear among us.

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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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    Jonathan Edwards
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    Revelation 5:12, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Colossians 1:15-16, Isaiah 53:2-3, Hebrews 4:15-16, Philippians 2:6-8
    It is true that he [Christ] has awful majesty; he is the great God, and is infinitely high above you; but there is this to encourage and embolden the poor sinner, that Christ is a man as well as God; ...

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    John of Kronstadt
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    John 3:16-17, Isaiah 53:4-5, Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 1:21, John 1:14, Isaiah 9:6
    The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-p...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Romans 5:18, Isaiah 53:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 3:23, Genesis 3:6
    The fact [is] that original sin is really original. Not merely in theology but in history it is a thing rooted in the origins. Whatever else men have believed, they have all believed that there is som...

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Isaiah 53:7, John 13:5, John 11:33-35, Mark 10:13-14, Luke 8:44-48
    In the one place in the Bible where the Son of God pulls back the veil and lets us peer way down into the core of who he is, we are not told that he is “austere and demanding in heart.” We are not tol...

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    William S. Stoddard
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    Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:8, Colossians 3:13, Luke 23:34
    Forgiving the unforgivable is hard. So was the cross: hard words, hard wood, hard nails.

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    Thomas Merton
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    John 1:10-11, Luke 2:7, Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 53:3, Matthew 8:20, Romans 5:8
    Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.

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    Irenaeus of Lyon
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    Genesis 1:26–27, Exodus 19:5–6 , Isaiah 53:4–5 , John 1:14, 2 Peter 1:3–4, Psalm 8:4–5
    Because of His measureless love He became what we are in order to enable us to become what He is.

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    Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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    Isaiah 53:4-6, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:1-3, Colossians 1:19-20, Exodus 12:1-30, Leviticus 16:, John 18:28-19
    In Christ as sacrifice, God our judge is judged in our place, reveals our perpetration of and collaboration with sin, ends our rebellion, forgives our guilt, cleanses us, makes us righteous, and estab...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    Matthew 11:28-30, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Romans 5:8, John 13:14-15, Isaiah 53:3-5, Matthew 20:26-28, 1 John 4:9-10
    Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

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    Martin Luther
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    Galatians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:4-5, Romans 8:3, 1 Peter 2:24
    A magistrate regards someone as a criminal and punishes him if he catches him among thieves, even though the man has never committed anything evil or worthy of death. Christ was not only found among s...

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    John Jacob Niles
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    Isaiah 53:, Genesis 3:15, Exodus 12:, Psalm 22:, Romans 5:8
    I wonder as I wander, out under the sky, How Jesus the Savior did come for to die.

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Luke 23:34, 1 John 1:9, Isaiah 53:5, John 13:10-11, Hebrews 9:22, Romans 5:8, Luke 22:31-62
    When Jesus holds up the cup and offers what is in it as the fluid of forgiveness, he is not talking to people with a short list of minor sins. He is talking to people who will turn him in, who will sc...

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    A.C. Dixon
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    Colossians 1:19-20, Galatians 2:20, Romans 5:8-9, Isaiah 53:5, Hebrews 9:22
    The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the justifier of him that believes in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction of jus...

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    James H. Aughey
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    James 5:15, Exodus 15:26, 1 Peter 2:24, Luke 4:18, Matthew 9:12, Isaiah 53:5
    Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all...
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