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“It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

tags: depravity, humility, mercy-of-god, self-pity, sovereignty-of-god

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“Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: adversity, character, christ, comfort, depravity, faith, flaw, forgiveness, god, gospel, grace, holiness, holiness-of-god, honesty, humility, hypocrisy, imperfect, jesus, joy, know-it-all, legalism, mercy, pain, peace, perfect, pride, righteousness, self-righteousness, shame, sinner, suffering, truth

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“We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

tags: depravity, idolatry

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“He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

tags: depravity, human-condition, sin

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“What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.”
― Criss Jami, Healology