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“To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.”
― Jim Valvano

“We are passive receivers of the gift of salvation, but we are thereby rendered active worshipers in a life of thanksgiving that is exhibited chiefly in loving service to our neighbors.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

“The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

“It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.”
― Scott Keith, Being Dad: Father as a Picture of God's Grace

“The Next Big Thing is Christ’s return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

“Being a dad is not summed up by requiring compliance or obedience; it is, at its most basic level, pointing your children to the God who has made it all OK and saves lost sinners on account of Christ.”
― Scott Keith, Being Dad: Father as a Picture of God's Grace

“Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“We have somehow gotten the idea that the abundant life Jesus promised in John 10:10 means an abundance of health, wealth, and happiness. The idea of suffering for the sake of Christ is foreign to us. We have substituted the pursuit of happiness for the pursuit of holiness. We hesitate to sacrifice even our material possessions for His cause, let alone sacrificing our lives or the lives of our children upon the altar of His service.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“The universal testimony of those who have suffered for the sake of Christ and His church is that they have experienced a deep fellowship, an intimate communion with Him in the midst of their sufferings.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“God’s love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well?”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“Men, if we are to serve our wives with a purposeful love that moves them steadily toward Christlikeness, we must be men of grace—men who revel in God’s grace, speak of God’s grace, model God’s grace.”
― Larry McCall, Loving Your Wife as Christ Loves the Church

“Christ’s love for His bride is a permanent, persevering love.”
― Larry McCall, Loving Your Wife as Christ Loves the Church

“The Pharisees focused on excuses for divorce while Jesus focused on reasons to persevere in our marriage commitment.”
― Larry McCall, Loving Your Wife as Christ Loves the Church

“We love our wives by drawing from the never-ending love that the Lord has shown us.”
― Larry McCall, Loving Your Wife as Christ Loves the Church

“While many times we need to rein in our fleshly desires, there are also times when we need to let go of legalism and embrace greater sexual freedom in our marriage. God is a whole lot more comfortable with the idea of sex and sexual pleasure than most of us are.”
― Jeff Murphy, Pursuit of Passion: Discovering True Intimacy in Your Marriage

“Today, we have a surplus of sex in our culture but a deficit of true love and authentic sexual intimacy.”
― Jeff Murphy, Pursuit of Passion: Discovering True Intimacy in Your Marriage

“If we are to master the scriptural principles of true biblical community, we must master this one: True greatness in the kingdom of heaven involves serving one another. Jesus said, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant” (Matthew 20:26).”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“one of the chief characteristics of a servant is that he serves downward — that is, to those who by the world’s standards are beneath him in position or station in life.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.”
― Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“All temptation finds its power when hidden from others.”
― Jeff Murphy, Pursuit of Passion: Discovering True Intimacy in Your Marriage

“Kingdom prayer is prayer that is preoccupied with God’s glory.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

“The more we pray, the more we are surrendering thoughts of our own glory and the more we are unbusying ourselves with the enterprise of our own glory.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

“The Psalms are emotionally bipolar, from one high to the depths of despair.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“INTIMACY IS AN ART. It’s not something that just happens. It must be learned, cultivated, and practiced carefully if it is to flourish.”
― Manis Friedman, The Joy of Intimacy: A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality, and Marriage

“The mistake is that married couples don’t need increased physical pleasure or better physical pleasure. What we need is closeness. Even more than that, we need oneness. We want and need the joy of intimacy.”
― Manis Friedman, The Joy of Intimacy: A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality, and Marriage