“The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.”
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“Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!”
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“Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”
― One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
― One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.”
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