“Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.”
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“The gospel doesn’t make bad people good; it makes dead people alive.”
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
“God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.”
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
“Like Adam and Eve, each time we sin we’re choosing to be our own deity. We’re placing ultimate trust in ourselves, not in our Creator and Savior and Lord.”
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
“God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.”
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
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