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    Flannery O'Connor
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    You have to suffer as much from the church as for it. . . . The only thing that makes the church endurable is that somehow it is the body of Christ, and on this we are fed.

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    Henry Drummond
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    1 John 4:20, John 13:34-35, Matthew 5:16, 1 Corinthians 8:9, Romans 14:13, Matthew 23:13, Luke 15:11-32
    How many prodigals are kept out of the kingdom of God by the unlovely characters of those who profess to be inside!

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    James H. Aughey
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    The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at ...

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    Paul Washer
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    Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

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    Thomas C. Oden
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    The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands...

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    Lindsey Coffman
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    Almost a year after our infant son was born dead, a woman at church talked about him, using his name in a conversation, and I almost wept with gratitude! I didn’t realize how much it hurt that everyon...

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    Gary Thomas
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    Jesus never appears desperate, manipulative, or controlling, as if when people didn’t agree with him, his feelings would be hurt. He is mission-focused and others-centered to his deepest core.

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    Thomas Keating
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    Ephesians 4:32, Romans 12:10, Colossians 3:12-14, Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:3-4
    The kingdom is present not in grandiose accomplishments, but in showing practical love in humble ways, day after day, and in refusing to allow our failures and disappointments to hide God’s love from ...

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    Cliff Jones
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    Don’t give until it hurts. Give until it feels good.

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    Timothy Keller
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    The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with...

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    Rick Warren
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    Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts."

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    J. R. Miller
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    Romans 8:28, Jeremiah 18:4, Psalm 147:3, 1 Corinthians 1:27-28, Matthew 11:28-30, 2 Corinthians 12:9
    Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessfu...

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    John Ortberg
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    If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings qui...

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    Rick Warren
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    Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt.

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    N. T. Wright
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    The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the s...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Psalm 147:3
    Hearts are broken in ten thousand ways, for this is a heart-breaking world; and Christ is good at healing all manner of heart-breaks.

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    Francis MacNutt
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    Too many Christians are broken in a destructive way—so badly broken that they cannot carry out the great commandment of loving God and neighbor. Their inner turmoil prevents them from carrying out God...

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    Hebrews 12:11, Galatians 6:1, 2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Peter 4:16, John 15:18-19, 2 Timothy 3:12
    The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

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    Matt Chandler
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    The church before Christendom was made up of individuals who had a courage that could not be quenched by the fires nor torn apart by the lions. It was made up of ordinary people who together unleashed...

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    Anthony of Sourozh
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    Public confession requires several conditions. First, a person who has acted against the integrity of the Body, the integrity of its faith, must be prepared to expose himself because what matters is h...

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    Nicky Gumbel
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    Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

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    Roy E. Ciampa and Brian S. Rosner
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    1 Corinthians 12:, Romans 12:4-8, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 4:11-16, Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 5:30, John 13:34-35
    God put the body together in such a way that those who experience honor in this life and those who do not are to astound the world by their unity and their concern for one another.

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    Walter Adams
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    To walk with Jesus is to walk with a slow, unhurried pace. Hurry is the death of prayer and only impedes and spoils our work. It never advances it.

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    Edmund P. Clowney
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    When Protestants speak of going to church... they are not thinking of a building but of a congregation. The congregation, not the building is holy... The church is holy because the congregation is the...

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    Alan Fadling
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    My hurry is what often makes the yoke of life and ministry heavier than Jesus means it to be.

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    John Mark Comer
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    I cannot live in the kingdom of God with a hurried soul.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

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    Clyde Reid
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    We structure our churches and maintain them so as to shield us from God and to protect us from genuine religious experience…The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no man...
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