The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.
– Billy Graham
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- The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians. – Kevin DeYoung
- If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life. – Elizabeth George
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- Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures. – Debasish Mridha
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- The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture. – Tim Chester
- If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded. – Billy Graham
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- I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are – Tarryn Fisher
- Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray. – Todd Stocker
- We must experience Heaven on earth;May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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- If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important. – Katelyn Beaty
- Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God. – Dan Allender
- There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture. – Daniel Henderson
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- Reflect who you truly are even when people try to tempt you to reflect the wrong image of yourself. – Cyc Jouzy
- Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God. – Billy Graham
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- Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. – Bryant McGill
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- God gives strength to the weak.God grace is the power for godly living. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all. – Felix O Hartmann
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