D.R. Silva Quotes

#1. Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

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#2. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

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#3. People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

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#4. I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

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#5. I didn't know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell. I was made to believe that was the normal Christian life; then I heard the gospel.

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#6. If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

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#7. Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

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#8. Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.

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#9. Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

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#10. Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.

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#11. There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.

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#12. The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

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#13. My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

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#14. People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

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#15. You don't need a Master's in Theology to love people.

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#16. Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.

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#17. Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

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#18. Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.

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#19. I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

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#20. If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

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#21. I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

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#22. I only run from darkness when I'm not confident in my ability to shine.

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#23. If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

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#24. How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own?

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#25. Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.

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#26. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

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#27. We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

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#28. Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

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#29. What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all.

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