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“Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of God’s heart that cause you to go there in the first place and keep you cool toward him in the wake of it.”

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“If you are part of Christ’s body, your sins evoke his deepest heart, his compassion and pity. He takes part w you—that is, he’s on your side. He sides with you against your sin, not against you because of your sin. He hates sin. But he loves you.”

“Look to Christ. He deals gently with you. It’s the only way he knows how to be. He is the high priest to end all high priests. As long as you fix your attention on your sin, you will fail to see how you can be safe…Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness.”