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"If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives."
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"Dragos never lifted his head from his task. He said in a quiet voice, 'Tell me you're in control, and I will believe you...' Straightening his shoulders, Liam replied steadily, 'I'm in control."
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"Surrender had played out for good with me."
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Personal Development
"When you stop struggling, you float."
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Personal Development
"You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together."
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Personal Development
"Let go of the need to control. The universe knows its way."
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Personal Development
"Do your best, then put your feet on the table, and to God leave the rest."
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Personal Development
"Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self."
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"Let go, and let life take care of itself."
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"Our problems will melt away if we surrender to God."
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"Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New."
History
"God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can 'just forgive' the perpetrator. But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly."
Forgiveness
"Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature."
Morality
"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."
Love
"In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses."
Grace
"If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life."
Devotion
"No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love."
Love
"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."
Society
"God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast."
Faith
"Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities."
Religion
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