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“Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

tags: depravity, discipleship, evangelism, grace

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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

tags: apologetics, bad, blindness, blindness-of-man, complexity, complication, depravity, desire, discernment, emotion, evil, fallen, glory, god, good, happiness, heart, holiness, ignorance, joy, judgment, love, lust, man, meaning, misunderstood, morality, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, pain, passion, perfection, purpose, reason, scam, simplicity, sin, sovereignty, stupidity, stupidity-of-man, suffering, ultimate, understanding

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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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“The theme of the Bible is not that the world's not messy but that God's at work in the mess.”
― Matt Chandler

tags: depravity, faith

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“Dismally enough, some of us are insecure in such a way that we cannot bear the thought of the sovereignty of God, the thought of His Being as greater than ourselves; it moves us into feelings of insignificance. Nonetheless, allow me to personally and peacefully maintain that if I were to worship and obey anything, I would like it far greater than myself or any person or human system, preferably to a point where it, in all its majesty, makes me feel lost and even 'creatural' in my basic humanity. Only this God - He who is great beyond human measure, yet still considers His creation precious - I find to be more than worthy of praise; otherwise, I bow down and worship nothing. And if the thought of such a superior and almighty God were to indeed offend me, I would have to remember that it is because I am only as significant as the things which I am idolizing, things which are ultimately separating me, the creation, from my ultimate Creator.”
― Criss Jami, Healology