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    Stanley Kunitz
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    Romans 5:3-4, Lamentations 3:31-32, Psalm 73:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:3
    How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

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    Richard Lovelace
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    Romans 5:1, Romans 8:1, Galatians 2:16, Titus 3:5, 1 John 4:15, Isaiah 61:10, Hebrews 10:14
    Much that we have interpreted as a defect of sanctification in church people is really an outgrowth of their loss of bearing with respect to justification. Christians who are no longer sure that God l...

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    Russian Toast
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    Romans 5:3-5, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, James 1:2-4, Hebrews 12:1-2, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Isaiah 40:31
    Let us drink to the success of our hopeless cause.

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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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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Romans 5:3-5, Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 42:11, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Romans 8:24-25, Isaiah 40:31
    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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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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    Alia Joy
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    Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 2:4-5, Mark 5:25-34, Psalm 34:18, Romans 5:6
    There is a helplessness in poverty that precedes the move of God in our lives because we understand an aspect of grace that so many miss: we do nothing to earn it. When we understand this, all becomes...

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Romans 5:18-19, Exodus 1:14, Luke 15:11-32, John 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:22, Romans 3:23-24, Genesis 3:1-7
    The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 7:18-20, Romans 3:23, Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12
    The next time you say something deceitful, hurtful or proud, you cannot say “I don’t know what came over me.” Nothing came over you. Such sins come _out_of you. They come from a wellspring that is ver...

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    John 13:1-17, Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 2:21, Hebrews 9:14, Mark 10:45, Romans 5:8
    To accept this [Jesus' self-humiliation in washing the disciples' feet] is to be converted. And nothing can be added to this. If you imagine that you can add something to what is given in the ...

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    Ephrem of Syria
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    1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 1 Peter 2:24, Colossians 1:19-20, Romans 5:18-19, Hebrews 2:14-15
    All these changes did the Merciful One effect: Stripping of His glory and putting on a body; For He had devised a way to reclothe Adam, In that glory which Adam had stripped off.

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    Phillip Yancey
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    John 21:15-19, 2 Samuel 12:1-13, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:20-21, Luke 15:7
    Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

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    Thomas à Kempis
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    Matthew 5:11-12, Job 23:10, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Psalm 66:10-12, Proverbs 17:3, James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-4
    For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Psalm 23:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:3-5
    Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

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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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    Karl Barth
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    Philippians 4:19, Psalm 46:1-2, Romans 5:6-8, Isaiah 41:10, Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Matthew 14:13-21
    Total need requires total help

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    Handley Moule
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    Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 6:23, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 5:8, James 2:10, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:23
    The harlot, the liar, the murderer, are short of it [sc. God’s glory]; but so are you. Perhaps they stand at the bottom of a mine, and you on the crest of an Alp; but you are as little able to touch t...

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    Laura Sobiech
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    Romans 8:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 30:5, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 5:3-5
    “[Zach] had gone from seeing beauty in the midst of suffering to creating it. He had taken this thing that could have suffocated him with despair and stripped it down until all that was left was hope....

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Karl Barth
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    Genesis 15:6, Habakkuk 2:4, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:1-2, Matthew 17:20, Psalm 62:5-6
    Only faith survives; faith which is not a work, not even a negative work; not an achievement, not even the achievement of humility. . . . Faith is the ground, the new order, the light. . . . Faith is ...

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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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    Oswald Chambers
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    Psalm 119:67, Isaiah 48:10, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 3:10, Romans 5:3-5
    We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of pe...

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    Jürgen Moltmann
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    Romans 5:3-4, James 1:2-3, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Hebrews 11:1, 1 Peter 4:12-13
    Faith does not grow in spite of suffering, but through suffering, when hope learns to contradict reality.

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    Mark Buchanan
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    Isaiah 30:15-16, James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Hebrews 12:1-2
    A typical response to threat and burden is to want to flee it. It’s evacuation as the cure for trouble. If only I could get away is our mantra. Then I would be safe. Then I could enjoy my life. But wh...

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    1 Corinthians 15:56, Romans 5:12
    Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56) - the rejection by man of the only true life given to him by G...

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    Abraham J. Heschel
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    Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Job 23:10
    Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.

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    Charles F. Stanley
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    James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-5, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 34:19
    Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    John 1:29, Matthew 27:, Hebrews 9:12, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Ephesians 1:7, Romans 5:8-9
    It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ&#...

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    Donald Grey Barnhouse
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    John 8:1-11, Psalm 113:5-8, Romans 5:8, Philippians 2:6-8, John 13:14-15, Luke 15:11-32
    Love that reaches up is adoration. Love that reaches out is affection. But love that stoops is grace.
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