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    Johann Albrecht Bengel
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    Psalm 73:2–3, 16–17, Romans 9:20, Matthew 20:1–16 , Job 3:23–26, Exodus 5:22–23, Jonah 4:1–4
    It is wicked to wrong God; but still worse to think oneself wronged by God. And men and women think this oftener than one would suppose.

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    Max Lucado
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    Genesis 3:1-7, Exodus 14:10-31, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 23:1-6 , John 10:10-11 , Romans 8:31-39
    The most insidious deception in human history is the lie that says, “God is against you.”

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    Anne Lamott
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    You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    James 4:7-8, 1 John 1:9, Ephesians 2:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Luke 5:32, Isaiah 1:18, Romans 5:8
    We don’t come to Him as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Shalom is a persistent vision of joy, well-being, harmony, and prosperity, many dimensions and subtle nuances: love, loyalty, grace, salvation, justice, blessing, righteousness.” [Shalom is] the freig...

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    Pheme Perkins
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    Mark 16:1-8, Isaiah 41:10, Ephesians 2:8-9, Matthew 28:20, Psalm 34:18, 1 John 1:9
    The women’s response brings readers face to face with the mystery of faith. There are no heroes among Jesus’ followers. The hostility that put Jesus on the cross has reduced them all to flight and fea...

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    Nicholas Wolterstorff
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    But the peace which is shalom is not merely the absence of hostility, not merely being in right relationship. Shalom at its highest is enjoyment in one’s relationships…A nation may be at peace with al...

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    John Langdon-Davies
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    Those who have to be ordered to love God usually believe that obedience involves those excluding all other loves, to the extent of hating the world, the flesh, and even the self. We therefore find amo...

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    Billy Graham
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    Proverbs 6:16-19, Psalm 5:4-5, Romans 6:23, Romans 3:23, Colossians 3:5-6, Proverbs 15:9, Psalm 7:11, John 3:36
    Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God.... The sinne...

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    John Ruskin
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    God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

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    Luc Niebergall
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    No one is mandated by God to be a heresy hunter. When we are walking in judgement and a critical spirit, we can stumble into an unhealthy infatuation with looking for the enemy, instead of seeking the...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say th...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all a...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

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    R. C. Sproul
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    John 3:19-20, Proverbs 16:5, 1 Samuel 15:23, Jeremiah 2:19, James 4:4
    Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”

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    Phillip Yancey
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    God's terrible insistence on human freedom is so absolute that he granted us the power to live as though He did not exist, to spit in His face, to crucify Him.

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    James MacDonald
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    To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – ab...

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    John Stott
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    So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred for God's enemies, not our own enemies. It is entirely free of all spite, rancor an...

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    Martin Luther
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    Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 5:10, John 3:18, Romans 4:20-21, James 1:6-8, Psalm 78:19-22
    What greater rebellion against God, what greater wickedness, what greater contempt of God is there than not believing His promise? For what is this but to make God a liar or to doubt that He is truthf...

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    D. A. Carson
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    The heart of all this evil is idolatry itself. It is the de-godding of God.

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Self-righteousness exclaims, “I will not be saved in God’s way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God’s grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the pe...

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    Dwight L. Moody
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    God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

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    T. F. Hodge
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    Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

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    Brennan Manning
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    He [God] has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners.

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    Thomas à Kempis
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    If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

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    John Piper
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    The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the ...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin gri...

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    Reinhold Niebuhr
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    The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    1 John 3:3, Colossians 3:5, Hebrews 12:14, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Romans 12:1-2
    The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israe...
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