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1. There is really only one thing that can minimize Christ's saving work and that is our failing to lay hold of it. I'm convinced…that this is when we begin to make our forward steps as Christians: When I know through experience that I can lay hold of Christ's blood by faith to cover my sins this morning, and then to cover my sins this afternoon, even if they're the same sins—when I know this, the preciousness of Christ's blood becomes a tremendous reality, I begin to live in the light of His presence and in the light of His work—not just in the past or in the future, but in the present. I begin to live in the reality of the supernatural world…a true Christian is that person who knows, by experience, the ever-present wonder of being able to lay hold of the blood of Jesus and then being able to say thank you, knowing that his or her fellowship with God is completely restored.

--Francis Schaeffer

2. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. –Charles Spurgeon

4. “The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ.” --Maurice Roberts

5. Sometimes our religious systems make Jesus so ethereal that He is no longer relevant to anything but theological polemics and doctrinal propositions. You need your soul "washed out" and once again drawn to the One who loves you beyond anything you could possibly imagine. I need it because sometimes I forget. --Steve Brown

6. Cling to the Lord Jesus in your feebleness, in your fickleness, in your nothingness; and
abidingly take him to be everything to you. –Spurgeon

7. “Though your faith is as weak as a single strand of a spider's web, if it is faith in Christ, it is saving faith; because it is not faith that saves… it is Christ who saves.” --John Murray

8. We did not merely say "Be good, come to church." We did not merely say "Keep the commandments" but above all, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen." --THOMAS MERTON

9. “For decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost. For in becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity, and with neurotics we find ourselves asking, ‘Who am I, what is my deepest destiny, what does living mean?’” --Hobart Mowrer— former Professor of Psychology at Harvard and former President of the American Psychological Assoc.

10. "Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among them. So we remain alone with our sin, living lies and hypocrisy. The fact is we are sinners. But it is the grace of the Gospel, which is so hard for the pious to understand, that it confronts us with the truth and says: You are a sinner, a great desperate sinner; now come as the sinner that you are, to God who loves you…He does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; He wants you alone. God has come to save the sinner." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

11. Although sorrow for sin is certainly a legitimate aspect of worship, it should be understood as only a moment in worship, not a pervasive tone or atmosphere. In Psalm 51 and Isaiah 6, sorrow for sin soon dissolves into joy as the sinner finds forgiveness through the grace of God. The overall tone of our worship of God is to be a tone of reverent joy. –John Frame