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“The person who calls himself a Christian, who says he loves God, yet does not seek his company and delight in it, can’t be a true lover of God.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“The good news of Jesus is not just that we get out of hell free, but that we become like Jesus himself and are made able to live and reign with him forever in the new heaven and the new earth.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“A person with a big head and a small heart can learn the doctrines of sin, yet never be convicted of sin.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“We have met the enemy and he is us. —Pogo”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“The main ploy of the flesh is to slip worldliness into the mind under the guise of necessity.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“But think through this: Is it likely that God would call us to do more than he gives us time to do? No one who believes God is good and wise could answer yes. So when it seems we don’t have enough time to do our work, care for our families, love our friends, and devote ourselves to prayer and meditation, the problem isn’t God’s providence. The problem may be that we’ve taken on ourselves more than God expects or intends.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“If we are not spiritually wise in managing our souls, how can we help making a wreck of ourselves?”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.”4”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Glorious Christ: Meditations on His Person, Work, and Love

“This is the glory that the angels bend down to get a glimpse of (1 Peter 1:12). This glory is the foundation of the church (Matt. 16:16–19). Yet we can’t explain it to our children. We run short of words and analogies. Here we have to fall down and worship the Author of this wonderful mystery and, submitting our understanding to the obedience of faith, humbly adore what we can’t comprehend.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Glorious Christ: Meditations on His Person, Work, and Love

“Though we waver, each of us has a spiritual bias; we are either dominated by thoughts and longings that lead to death or devoted to those that lead to life and peace. And these biases are rooted in our identity, in our relation to Christ.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Devoted Mind: Seeking God's Face in a World of Distraction

“the flesh is a “fisher of men.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“What you are when you are alone with God, that you are— and nothing more.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin

“We know that to be with him and to see his glory are all that can satisfy us—all that can bring us peace.”
― Kris Lundgaard, The Glorious Christ: Meditations on His Person, Work, and Love