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    Chuck DeGroat
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    Philippians 3:7-11
    When I teach on the dynamics of real change and maturation, I often describe a “furnace of transformation” each of us must pass through for the sake of growth and refinement. I’ve never seen real grow...

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    Lewis B. Smedes
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    Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Romans 12:17-19, Micah 7:18-19
    Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope ...

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    William Law
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    Matthew 6:33, Matthew 22:37-39, Colossians 3:23-24, Luke 12:15, Mark 8:36-37, Philippians 3:8, Micah 6:8, Romans 14:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Psalm 23:4, Philippians 1:21-23
    If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we a...

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    Latin Saying
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    Joshua 24:14–15, 1 Kings 3:5–14, Proverbs 4:10–19, Matthew 7:13–14, Philippians 3:12–14, Psalm 1:1–2
    Quod vitae sectabor iter. Translation: Who do I want to be? And: What path will I take?

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    John D. Zizioulas
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    Romans 5:2-5, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Colossians 1:27, Romans 8:24-25, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 3:13-14
    [The Christian Faith] has its roots in the future and its branches in the present.

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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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    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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    D. A. Carson
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    2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Luke 18:29-30, Mark 10:28-30, Matthew 19:29, Philippians 3:8, Luke 14:33, Matthew 13:44
    The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

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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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    C. S. Lewis
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    Micah 7:18, Colossians 3:13, Hebrews 8:12, Ephesians 4:31-32, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philippians 3:13-14
    "Here is your brother”, he [Aslan] said, "and-there is no need to talk to him about what is past.”

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Philippians 3:13-14, Romans 12:18, Colossians 3:13, James 5:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 147:3
    Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Matthew 6:33, Colossians 3:1-2, Mark 8:36, Philippians 3:20, 1 Timothy 6:7, Hebrews 11:10
    Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

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    Malcolm Muggeridge
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    Colossians 3:2, Isaiah 65:17, Revelation 21:1-2, Philippians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Hebrews 11:10
    The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because i...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Luke 14:27, Acts 5:29, Philippians 3:20, Matthew 28:18-20, Isaiah 9:6-7, Psalm 22:28
    We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is ...

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    Ovid
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    1 John 3:2, Galatians 2:20, Ezekiel 36:26, Colossians 3:9-10, Philippians 3:20-21, 2 Corinthians 5:17
    My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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    Alister E. McGrath
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    James 2:24, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 4:5, Philippians 3:9, Galatians 2:16
    The faith by which we are justified is faith. Faith is like a channel through which the benefits of Christ flow to us. We are not justified on account of faith; we are justified through faith. It is t...

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    Thomas Merton
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    Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 , Isaiah 6:8, Jonah 1:1-3 & 3:1-3 , Matthew 16:24-26 , Philippians 3:7-14, Psalm 139:13-16
    If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living...

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    Gerhard Lohfink
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    Acts 1:9-11, 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Philippians 3:20-21, James 5:7-8, Revelation 22:20, Luke 21:27-28, Matthew 24:42-44
    The early apostolic communities cannot be understood outside of the matrix of intense expectation. They were communities awaiting Christ’s return. They gathered in Eucharist for, among other reasons, ...

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    Alister E. McGrath
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    1 Peter 1:8-9, Philippians 3:20, 1 Corinthians 2:9, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

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    Michael Gorman
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    Romans 8:19-21, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, Philippians 3:20-21, Colossians 1:16-18, Revelation 21:, 2 Corinthians 5:17
    Salvation in the New Testament is consistently portrayed not as escape from creation but as the redemption and transformation of creation.

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    Richard Sibbes
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    Colossians 3:2, Philippians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 11:13-16, Matthew 6:19-21, 1 John 2:15-16, Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:22, Matthew 19:21
    The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

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    George Bernard Shaw
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    Philippians 3:13-14, Matthew 11:12, Galatians 1:10, Daniel 3:18, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Acts 17:6
    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Matthew 6:24, 1 Kings 3:1-15, Luke 10:38-42, Philippians 3:7-8, Colossians 3:2, 1 John 2:15-17
    For though [something] be good, it may be loved with an evil as well as with a good love: it is loved rightly when it is loved ordinately; evilly, when inordinately.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    John 17:24, Isaiah 33:17, Revelation 21:23, Colossians 3:3-4, Philippians 3:20-21, Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 3:18
    We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to r...

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    Christopher West
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    John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Genesis 1:27, Romans 12:1, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 3:20-21
    If the phrase “theology of the body” seems odd, perhaps it’s because we haven’t taken the reality of the incarnation as seriously as Scripture does. There’s nothing surprising about looking to the hum...

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    Mary Bell
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    Ecclesiastes 2:11, Proverbs 16:3, Matthew 6:33, Philippians 3:8, James 4:10, Psalm 127:1
    Achievement is the alcohol of our time.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    1 Corinthians 13:13, Titus 2:11-13, Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 3:20, 1 Peter 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:24-25
    Hope is one of the Theological virtues. A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not as some modern people think, a form of escapism or wishful thinking. But it's one of the great thing...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Matthew 11:28-30, Genesis 22:, Acts 9:1-19, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 19:16-22, Philippians 3:7-8, Romans 6:22
    Grace is costly because it compels a person to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

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    James Merritt
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    2 Corinthians 6:18, Philippians 3:20-21, 1 John 3:1, Hebrews 2:11, Ephesians 1:5, Romans 8:15-17
    God became a part of the human family so that we could become a part of his heavenly family.

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    Luke 9:23, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 27:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Romans 14:17, Matthew 13:44, Colossians 3:1-2
    The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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