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    Brennan Manning
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    Colossians 3:2, Philippians 3:20, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 7:19
    Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 7:15-20, Proverbs 20:9, James 4:17, Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Proverbs 26:4-5, Job 2:9-10, Romans 7:19-25, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Psalm 42:5
    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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    Malcolm Muggeridge
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    John 3:19, Matthew 15:19, Psalm 51:5, Romans 7:18, Isaiah 64:6, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Jeremiah 17:9
    The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

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    Henry Fairlie
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    Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20
    If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Genesis 6:5, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:10-12, Romans 7:18-23, Ephesians 2:1-5
    The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man.

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    Titus 3:5, Romans 7:18-19, Psalm 51:5, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23
    “I’m not a good person” is a shockingly countercultural thing to say. We all want to think we’re “clean” and that we’ve avoided whatever “big sins” are on our own personal lists. But we trust ourselve...

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    James A. Baldwin
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    Romans 7:19, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 139:23-24, 2 Corinthians 13:5, James 2:17
    We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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    Dan B. Allender
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    Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 26:9, James 1:14-15, Philippians 1:23, Galatians 5:17, Romans 7:23
    Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lov...

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    Cormac McCarthy
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    Revelation 3:11, Hebrews 10:23, Proverbs 4:23, Romans 7:15, Matthew 26:75
    Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. Af...

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Psalm 51:17, Romans 7:18, Matthew 5:3, Romans 3:10
    Feel your sinfulness. Let it humble you. Let it sober you. Beware of so filling your life with talk shows and phone calls that you don’t regularly stop and consider the ruinous condition of your life ...

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    Douglas Adams
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    1 Peter 1:6-7, Genesis 9:20-21, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Judges 16:20, Romans 7:19, Proverbs 14:16
    He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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    Mitch Hedberg
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    Luke 15:20, Isaiah 61:1, James 5:16, 1 Corinthians 6:12, Galatians 6:1-2, Romans 7:19-20, Psalm 34:18
    Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 59:2, 2 Peter 2:19, John 8:34, Romans 7:18-19, Proverbs 5:22
    Sin is a suicidal action of the will upon itself. It is like taking an addicting drug. At first it may feel wonderful, but every time it gets harder to not do it again.

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    Dave Miller
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    John 10:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:6-7, Galatians 2:20, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 34:17-18, Romans 7:24-25
    “What’s wrong with me is me. Somebody needs to pull me from the raging waters I call ‘me.’

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 7:18-19, James 4:8, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Psalm 51:2-3
    It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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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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    Gerald G. May
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    Genesis 3:6, Ecclesiastes 1:8, Romans 7:14-25, Galatians 5:16-21, Psalm 16:21
    To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

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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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