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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
– Tullian Tchividjian

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  1. The only ‘if’ the Gospel knows is this: ‘if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’ (1 John 2:1) – Tullian Tchividjian
  2. Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you’ve been holding on to more dearly than Him. – Tullian Tchividjian
  3. The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us. – Tullian Tchividjian
  4. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. – Tullian Tchividjian
  5. The world isn’t scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness. – Tullian Tchividjian
  6. Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it – Tullian Tchividjian
  7. We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do. – Tullian Tchividjian
  8. Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one. – Tullian Tchividjian
  9. Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus. – Tullian Tchividjian
  10. It’s when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace. – Tullian Tchividjian
  11. We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world. – Tullian Tchividjian
  12. The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse. – Tullian Tchividjian
  13. The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. – Tullian Tchividjian
  14. The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him. – Kazoh Kitamori
  15. Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves. – Israelmore Ayivor
  16. Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel. – Dave Harvey
  17. The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
  18. The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism. – John Bevere
  19. You didn’t learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics – Jeri Massi
  20. What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
  21. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. – Augustine of Hippo
  22. A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
  23. We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth. – Adam Hamilton
  24. Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. – John Owen
  25. Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him. – Helmut Thielicke
  26. A Women can’t change a man because she loves him, where as a man changes himself because he loves her.. – Kumar
  27. Love as river loves the ocean.Love as air loves the leaves. – Debasish Mridha
  28. It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  29. God is love. Love is of God. Whoever loves is of God. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  30. To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. Money can’t buy true love. Those promises. A real person who loves you, loves you from the heart. – Auliq Ice
  32. God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
  33. If you want to change your future, you have to change your now, and to change your now you must change your mindset. – Anthony L Williams
  34. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  35. Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life – Danny Stone
  36. Change is often overrated: at times, all you need to change is how you change what you change in your life. – Asuni LadyZeal
  37. When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management – Peter M Senge
  38. You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind! – Latif Mercado
  39. Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  40. The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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