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“…any good-hearted goal, without the desire to give people eternal joy in God, is condemnation with a kind face.” -Pg 151

“…the third way we make much of God in our secular work is by having such high standards of excellence and such integrity and such manifest goodwill that we put no obstacles in the way of the gospel but rather call attention to the all-satisfying beauty of Christ.” -Pg 137

“…the essence of our work as humans must be that it is done in conscious reliance on God’s power, and in conscious quest of God’s pattern of excellence, and in deliberate aim to reflect God’s glory.” -Pg 134

“…we should be busy understanding and shaping and designing and using God’s creation in a way that calls attention to His worth and wakens worship.” -Pg 132

“One way to enjoy God’s presence and fellowship is through thankful awareness that your ability to do any work at all…is owing to His grace.” -Pg 130

“…the motive for being a forgiving person is the joy of being freely and joyfully at home with God.”
-Pg 97

“Soul-satisfying fellowship with our Father is the aim of the cross. If we love being forgiven for other reasons alone, we are not forgiven, and we will waste our lives.” -Pg 96

“…everything that you enjoy…as a Christian…is owing to the death of Christ.” -Pg 51

“…for the Christian, all…boasting should…be a boasting in the cross of Christ.” -Pg 50

“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.” -Pg 42

“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes Him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that He really is…We are meant to image forth in the world what Hr is really like.” -Pg 34

“The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.” -Pg 33