11. "Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
12. "We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
13. "Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you’re right with God. There’s no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: ‘I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
14. "Afterward, an evangelical student seemed bothered. He said, ‘I’m having trouble seeing the difference between what they do and what we do. It felt the same.’ As I explained to this student, it’s true that people in other religious movements can have wonderful experiences that make them feel spiritually uplifted. In fact, good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going to go."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
15. "Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING"
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
16. "Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they’ve done enough to warrant paradise,"
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
17. "Jesus’s death has infinite value because he’s an infinite God; it was enough to cover all the sins of the world. If we say some sin is too terrible, then we’re saying Jesus fell short in his mission. Grace is only grace if it’s available even to the Duchs of the world. In fact, he said, straightening himself in his chair, here’s a difficult thing for us to comprehend: God loves Duch as much as he loves you and me."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
18. "When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn’t footnote any exceptions. God’s grace is inexhaustible."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
19. "while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
20. "Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it’s testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don’t."
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Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives