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“When ministers wield absolute authority, everyone loses, even God.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Toxic Faith: Experiencing Healing Over Painful Spiritual Abuse

“Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“For most of church history good Christians have disagreed on the millennium, and millennial views should not become barriers of fellowship. On the other hand, the millennium is not some incidental doctrine that doesn’t really matter. It is a major part of the Bible’s storyline and involves the nature and timing of Jesus’ kingdom.”
― Michael Vlach, Premillennialism: Why There Must Be a Future Earthly Kingdom of Jesus

“Salvation by grace—salvation by free grace—salvation not of works, but according to the mercy of God—salvation on such a footing is not more indispensable to the deliverance of our persons from the hand of justice, than it is to the deliverance of our hearts from the chill and the weight of ungodliness. Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel, and we raise a topic of distrust between man and God.”
― Thomas Chalmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection