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    Tertullian
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    Colossians 1:16-17, Proverbs 3:19-20, Jeremiah 10:12, Isaiah 45:18, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalm 89:14
    From the very first the Creator was both good and also just. And both His attributes advanced together. His goodness created; His justice arranged, the world; and in this process it even then decreed ...

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    David Peterson
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    Romans 8:24, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 10:10, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
    God's will is what you would want for yourself if you knew enough to want it.

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    Joshua Choonmin Kang
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    Micah 6:8, Psalm 138:6, Proverbs 3:34, Matthew 11:28-29, 1 Peter 5:5-6, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 4:6
    [God’s] greatest grace is found at the lowest place

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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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    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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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 103:8, 1 John 4:16, Proverbs 3:5-6, Lamentations 3:22-23, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28
    Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

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    John Calvin
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    1 Corinthians 10:16, Genesis 27:29, Nehemiah 8:10, Isaiah 25:6, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Proverbs 3:10, Psalm 104:15
    Wine is God’s special drink. The purpose of good wine is to inspire us to a livelier sense of gratitude to God.

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    Martin Luther
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    Matthew 17:20, Psalm 34:8, Isaiah 26:3-4, Jeremiah 17:7-8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    1 Corinthians 2:9, Job 23:10, Romans 11:33, Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-9
    I am ignorant of His designs, but I will not cease to believe in them because I cannot penetrate them. And I will prefer to doubt my own lights rather than His justice.

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    Lauren F. Winner
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
    Maybe God has given some people belief like a pier, to stand on (and God has given those people’s steadiness to the church, to me, as a reminder, as an aid), and maybe God has given others something e...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Isaiah 64:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 37:5, Matthew 6:31-33, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 8:28
    Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”

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    Timothy Keller
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    Proverbs 3:11-12, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Galatians 6:7-8, James 1:2-4, 2 Corinthians 4:17
    The entire book of Job contradicts the common belief that good people will have lives that go well, and that if your life is going badly, it must be your fault. The Bible does not say that every diffi...

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    Eugene Cho
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    1 Corinthians 1:25, Psalm 8:3-4, Job 36:26, Romans 11:33, Jeremiah 10:12, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Be humble. The world is bigger than your view of the world. And certainly, God is much bigger than your view of God.

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Acts 13:2, Matthew 13:15, Proverbs 3:5-6, Revelation 3:20, John 10:27, Romans 12:2, 1 Samuel 3:10
    God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, “. . . who will go for Us?” The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends ...

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Psalm 139:23-24, Luke 18:9-14, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

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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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    A. E. Houseman
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    1 Corinthians 13:12, Psalm 77:19, Proverbs 3:5-6, Deuteronomy 29:29, Ecclesiastes 3:11
    And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

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    Reinhold Niebuhr
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    Colossians 1:9, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:5, 2 Timothy 1:7, Joshua 1:9
    God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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    Richard Rohr
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    Romans 8:28, Luke 22:54-62, John 21:15-17, Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 12:5-6, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4
    We live a long time in order to become lovers. God is like a good parent, refusing to do our homework for us. We must learn through trial and error. We have to do our homework ourselves, the homework ...

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    Craig Dykstra And Dorothy Bass
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    Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 3:5-6, Nehemiah 6:3, Matthew 6:33, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 90:12
    We long to see our lives whole, to know that they matter. We wonder whether our many activities might ever come together in a way of life that is good for ourselves and others. Lacking a vision of a l...

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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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    Krister Stendahl
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 26:12, Matthew 23:12, Luke 18:9-14, 1 Corinthians 8:2-3
    Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

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    Martin Luther
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    Proverbs 4:20-22, Mark 2:17, James 5:14-15, Psalm 103:2-3, Proverbs 3:7-8, 1 Timothy 4:8
    I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen prod...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    Galatians 2:11-14, Jonah 3:4, Proverbs 3:3-4, Colossians 4:6, Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:15, John 1:14
    Truth-oriented Christians love studying Scripture and theology. But sometimes they’re quick to judge and slow to forgive. They’re strong on truth, weak on grace. Grace-oriented Christians love forgive...

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    David Livingstone
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    Acts 20:35, Proverbs 3:9, 2 Corinthians 9:7-8, Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33-34, Philippians 3:7-8, Matthew 13:44-46
    I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving o...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 19:1-10, Proverbs 3:5-10 , Malachi 3:10 , Acts 4:32-37, Matthew 10:8, Deuteronomy 16:17
    A man needs three conversions: first of the head, then of the heart, and finally of the pocketbook.

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    Gordon T. Smith
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 55:8-9 , Luke 9:23-24, Philippians 2:3-4 , Matthew 6:33-34, Psalm 37:5-6
    Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams observes that the biblical ideal is not so much that we need to deny the self as to decenter the self: To see the self in truth, as an integral member of a comm...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Hebrews 11:8, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 32:8, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 42:16, John 10:28-28, Romans 8:28
    Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Micah 6:8, Proverbs 3:34, Psalm 25:9, Philippians 2:3, Isaiah 57:15
    There is something in humility which raiseth the heart upward.

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    Hippocrates
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    Exodus 15:26 , Isaiah 38:16-17, Proverbs 3:7-8 , 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 , James 5:14-15 , Psalm 41:3
    A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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