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3-10 you have the character of the Christian described in and of itself.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
A principal source of cynicism comes from looking up at Christian leaders who have gotten Jesus’ kingdom mixed up with their own. Ministry itself can create a mask of performance, the projection of success. Everyone wants to be a winner. In contrast, Jesus never used his power to show off. He used his power for love.
David Powlison • A Praying Life
Augustine might make Christianity plausible again for those who’ve been burned—who suspect that the “Christianity” they’ve seen is just a cover for power plays and self-interest, or a tired moralism that seems angry all the time, or a version of middle-class comfort too often confused with the so-called American Dream.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age: Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and the Question of "Religionless Christianity" (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 166)
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic . . . or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. • The Gospel
a life of doing good for others is actually the most exciting life, for God calls us to find ways of doing good with a sense of creativity, competence, and adventure.