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1 " I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree. "
― D.R. Silva
2 " I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me. "
3 " How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own? "
4 " The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. "
5 " Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for. "
― D.R. Silva , It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church
6 " People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him. "
7 " You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people. "
8 " If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way? "
9 " Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be. "
10 " Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer. "
11 " If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it. "
12 " If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't. "
13 " Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it. "
14 " Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be. "
15 " I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it. "
16 " Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery. "
17 " My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive "
18 " Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity. "
19 " A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet. "
20 " We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place. "
