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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“to what some Christians today would have you believe, the biggest problem facing the church today is not “cheap grace” but “cheap Law”—the idea that God accepts anything less than the perfect righteousness of Jesus. My friend John Dink explains cheap Law this way: Cheap law weakens God’s demand for perfection, and in doing so, breathes life into … [our] quest for a righteousness of [our] own making.… It creates people of great zeal, but they lack knowledge concerning the question “What Would Jesus Do?” Here is the costly answer: Jesus would do it all perfectly. And that’s game over for you. The Father is not grooming you to be a replacement for his Beloved Son. He is announcing that there is blessing for those who take shelter in his Beloved Son. Cheap law tells us that we’ve fallen, but there’s good news, you can get back up again.… Therein lies the great heresy of cheap law: it is a false gospel. It cheapens—no—it nullifies grace.11”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“When Jesus calls, he certainly does demand everything, but only because he has already given everything himself, and has plans in store, for us and the world, that we would never have dreamed of.”
― N.T. Wright, Luke for Everyone

“developing tolerance for imperfection is the key factor in turning chronic starters into consistent finishers.”
― Jon Acuff, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

“Accomplishing a goal is a lot less like taking a train across country and a lot more like driving a bumper car.”
― Jon Acuff, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

“Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. It’s persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence”
― Jon Acuff, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done