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    Karl Barth
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    Isaiah 6:1-5, Genesis 3:8-10 , Romans 5:6-8 , Ephesians 2:4-5, John 14:6, Psalm 8:3-4
    On the one side there is God in His glory as Creator and Lord. . . . And on the other side there is man, not merely the creature, but the sinner, the one who exists in the flesh and who in the flesh i...

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    Timothy Keller
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    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    John 6:68, Matthew 7:28-29, Mark 12:29-31, Matthew 5:7, John 14:6, Matthew 16:15-16, John 18:33-38
    The discrepancy between the depth and sanity, and (let me add) shrewdness, of his moral teaching and the rampant megalomania which must lie behind his theological teaching unless he is indeed God, has...

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    Tim Downs
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    Romans 8:9-11, John 14:15-18, John 14:23, Romans 8:, Galatians 4:6
    Watches, cars, and Christians can all look chromed and shiny. But watches don't tick, cars don't go, and Christians don't make a difference without insides. For a Christian, that's the...

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    John 14:2-3, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 22:1-2, Matthew 25:34, 1 Corinthians 2:9, Philippians 3:20-21
    No sign that ever was given To faithful or faithless eyes Showed ever beyond clouds riven So clear a paradise. Earth’s creeds may be seventy times seven And blood have defiled each creed But if such b...

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    H. W. Robinson
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    James 1:22, Matthew 26:36-46, Genesis 22:1-19, Romans 12:1-2, John 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, Deuteronomy 6:4-5
    This is salvation in the deeper and more spiritual sense of the Old Testament. . . . But even in the religion of the Law, . . . obedience to the revealed will of Yahweh is recognized as the supreme en...

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    Watchman Nee
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    Romans 8:, John 14:15-18, John 14:23, Acts 1:8, John 16:13, Mark 13:11, Luke 21:14-15, Luke 12:11-12, Matthew 10:19-20, 1 John 4:1
    The indwelling Spirit shall teach him what is of God and what is not. This is why sometimes we can conjure up no logical reason for opposing a certain teaching, yet in the very depth of our being aris...

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    Alvin Plantinga
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    Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 10:17, 1 Corinthians 2:12-14, John 14:26
    Now faith is not just a cognitive affair: its being “sealed upon our hearts” is a matter of will and affect; it is a repair of the madness of the will that is at the heart of sin. Still, it is at leas...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    John 1:14, Hebrews 11:10, John 14:2-3, Psalm 90:1, Hebrews 13:14, Luke 2:1-10
    Home shall men come To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the wandering star; To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless...

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:21-22, 1 Peter 2:5, John 14:23
    Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

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    James I. Packer
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    Luke 3:22, John 14:26, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, John 16:13-14, Ephesians 1:17, Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 8:9
    It is as if the Spirit stands behind us, throwing light over our shoulder, on Jesus, who stands facing us. The Spirit’s message is never, “Look at me; listen to me; come to me; get to know me,” but al...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Luke 2:7, Matthew 8:20, Isaiah 52:2-3, Hebrews 13:2, John 14:2-3, Micah 5:2
    Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

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    C. H. Dodd
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    Luke 4:18-19, Acts 10:38, John 14:12, Luke 10:9, Matthew 12:28, Luke 7:22
    In what sense, then, did Jesus declare that the Kingdom of God was present? Our answer must at least begin with His own answer to John: “The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    1 Kings 19:12, Romans 8:26, John 14:15-17, John 3:8, 1 Kings 19:11-12
    The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr… So gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

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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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    Philip Melanchthon
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    John 14:26, Galatians 2:15-16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 3:23-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9
    But we must add at once that the pious will not cease from good works simply because it is impossible to gain any merit by them. Rather, the greater our faith, the more and greater our works…. For sin...

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    Thomas Oden
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    Colossians 2:2-3, John 7:46, Matthew 22:15-22, Luke 2:46-47, John 8:58, John 14:6, Matthew 7:28-29
    It becomes difficult if not impossible to build a plausible Christology out of a naive, mistaken, hapless, or ignorant Jesus.

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    S. D. Gordon
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    John 1:14, Hebrews 1:1-3, Colossians 1:15, John 14:8-9, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Matthew 11:27
    Jesus was God spelling himself out in language humanity could understand.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 14:26, John 14:15-17, John 16:12-15, 1 Corinthians 2:10-16, Ephesians 3:16-19, Isaiah 11:2, Romans 8:5-6
    O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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    James I. Packer
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    Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 8:9, Ephesians 3:16-17, John 14:16-17, Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 2:12-13, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
    The Christian’s life in all its aspects—intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness—is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it.

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    Michelle Blake
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    John 14:16-17, Matthew 1:23, Isaiah 40:31
    One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already a...

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    Karl Barth
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    John 14:6, Hebrews 10:19-20, John 10:1-9, Acts 4:12, 1 Timothy 2:5, Luke 19:1-10
    Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way.

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    John of Damascus
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    Isaiah 9:6, John 14:9, Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 1:3, 1 Timothy 3:16
    In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I...

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    Stuart Briscoe
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    John 1:1-5, John 14:16-17, Hebrews 1:8-12, John 11:25-26, Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 1:27, Hebrews 9:15, John 4:13-14, Matthew 28:20
    The spirit of Christmas needs to be superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    John 16:16, Matthew 16:13-17, John 10:71, Matthew 7:13-14, Colossians 1:19-20, Acts 4:12, John 14:6
    Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

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    David Brainerd
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    Psalm 18:1-2, Isaiah 12:2, Ephesians 2:8-9, Acts 4:12, John 14:6, Matthew 1:21, Jonah 2:9
    We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    2 Corinthians 12:9, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:28, John 14:27, Psalm 23:4
    What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was mean...

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    Anthony Anaxagorou
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    John 3:16, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 23:39-43, John 14:6, Romans 6:23
    A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

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    Susan Hunt
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    Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, John 14:15
    When God’s grace changes our status from rebel to redeemed, we are empowered by his Spirit to obey him. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds (Rom. 12:2) into his likeness (2 Cor. 3:18). Joy...

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    Richard John Neuhaus
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    2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 11:27, 1 Timothy 3:16, John 14:9, Hebrews 1:1-2
    Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what...
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