Mark Batterson
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life through Jesus Christ our Lord. BIBLE And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: / Of s... BIBLE LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We have been called to wrestle with sin through the cross of Jesus Christ; we are not here to wrestl... FELIX WANTANG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES REINHOLD NIEBUHR REINHOLD NIEBUHR JOYCE MEYER LAILAH GIFTY AKITA FRANCINE RIVERS The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. ‘That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you�... CIORAN BILLY GRAHAM STEVEN MAGEE DIETRICH BONHOEFFER JOHN WYCLIFFE JOHN BUNYAN Its one thing to forsake sin and quiet another to be forsaken by sin because to abstain from sin whe... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent o... COLIN S. SMITH CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ELLEN G. WHITE DOROTHY L. SAYERS CARLY SIMON LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t ... DAN PEARCE God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ... MATT CHANDLER I do not know you, my friends, not individually, most of you, but this is the wonderful thing about ... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequentl... RIG VEDA TOBA BETA BILLY GRAHAM THOMAS MERTON SAINT TERESA OF AVILA BILLY GRAHAM If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of... WILLIAM THROSBY BRIDGES WILLIAM BRIDGES JOHN R.W. STOTT PABLO NERUDA MARTIN LUTHER We who choose to surround ourselvesIRVING TOWNSEND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH There are, in fact,MARIETA MAGLAS- ESCHATOLOGICAL REGRESSION UNKNOWN JOHN PIPER BILLY GRAHAM Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages THOMAS J. WATSON, SR. Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages THOMAS J. WATSON SR. There is a price to pay for sin, and the sin is overpriced for the consequences in which it cost. SUSIE L HILL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The gospel brings tidings, glad tidings indeed,WILLIAM GADSBY There is no more confused message that you and I could give to a lost and dying world than to live i... JOE FOCHT Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine... D. D. WILLIAMS We are all slaves of sin until the Grace of God truly reveals the Gospel of Christ Jesus to His fall... NORM TOMLINSON PETER KREEFT KEVIN DEYOUNG OSCAR WILDE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PABLO NERUDA But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore C... BIBLE Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at... STEVEN COOK It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. CLIVE BELL DAVID A. BEDNAR FULTON J. SHEEN JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The miracles of Jesus are nevertheless more than individual blessings. They are also symbols and typ... ERIC D. HUNTSMAN The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment. JOHN MURRAY Thanksgiving (U.S.) I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all time... JOHN BAILLIE LAILAH GIFTY AKITA CASSANDRA CLARE UNKNOWN OSWALD CHAMBERS CHARLES R. SWINDOLL RAINER MARIA RILKE JOHN DONNE HERMAN MELVILLE DEJAN STOJANOVIC LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb... DANIEL D. WILLIAMS JACK GILBERT This was the great irony of his day: The 'righteous' were more damaged by their righteousness than t... JOHN ORTBERG Calvinist:
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Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day... MARK BATTERSON In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it... MARK BATTERSON Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goal... MARK BATTERSON Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths. MARK BATTERSON I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the st... MARK BATTERSON New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people. MARK BATTERSON I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to ... MARK BATTERSON To the infinite, all finites are equal. MARK BATTERSON When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving... 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Sin is serious—so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Chr... 
To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m... 
The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus. 
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. 
Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to ... 
It is better to be slave to Jesus Christ than the sin of satan. 
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. ... 
Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleans... 
A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than t... 
In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t... 
Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any ... 
There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of. 
If we say that we have no sin,
But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev... 
It is the sin that believes in nothing,
Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is only a horizon.
Jesus Christ has set me free from the chains of sin. 
Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin? 
Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus pur... 
And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal rewa... 
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of... 
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done b... 
Soy un poeta sin ningún precepto
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my s... 
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change 
The ABC of salvation.A - All have sinned.B - Behold
the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the... 
Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had ... 
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to ... 
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our sa... 
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains... 
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
Love brought its tail of pains,
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from ... 
He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ... 
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy... 
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street p... 
In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7
To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to tru... 
Here is the time for the sayable, here 
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Vir... 
Since nothing is absolute 
The Manger of Incidentals "
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, ... 
The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing... 
To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ... 
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and... 
Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. 
Every sin brings its punishment with it. 
Every sin brings its punishment with it. 
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement 
There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also o... 
-No puedo vivir sin ti
The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ. 
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. 
O man! Take heed!
Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our si... 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... 
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. 
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... 
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... 
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... 
The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,... 
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... 
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... 
Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel... 
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... 
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... 
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th... 
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... 