Thinking of others is at the heart of Christlikeness and the best evidence of spiritual growth. This kind of thinking is unnatural, counter-cultural, rare, and difficult.
—Rick Warren
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He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.
—Deuteronomy 10:21 NIV
A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
—Deuteronomy 10:17-18 NIV
Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.
—Rick Warren
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To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
—Deuteronomy 10:14 NIV
We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God’s favor—His blessings and answers to prayer—comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ.
—Jerry Bridges
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And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
—Deuteronomy 10:12-13 NIV
The heart of most religions is good advice, good techniques, good programs, good ideas, and good support systems. . . . But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us. Good advice may help us in daily direction; the Good News concerning Jesus Christ saves us from sin’s guilt and tyranny over our lives and the fear of death. It’s Good News because it does not depend on us. It is about God and his faithfulness to his own purposes and promises.
—Michael Horton
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You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
—Deuteronomy 8:17-18 NIV
