Tony Reinke Quotes

#1. Christian growth is never measured by a Christian's satisfaction in himself.

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#2. But sin should never consume our focus at the expense of our confidence in the power and sufficiency of Christ. There is little danger in thinking lowly of ourselves. The ever-present danger faced by the Christian is thinking too lowly of Christ. Christ is our identity, not indwelling sin.

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#3. What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.

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#4. Every time we open our Bibles, our souls are being fed through centuries of technological advancement.

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#5. If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that feeds our souls, we also cut ourselves from the truth that makes it possible for us to benefit from the truth, goodness, and beauty in the books that we read.

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#6. My annual goal is to read seventy-five books, which may sound like a lot.

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#7. Reading is a discipline, and all disciplines require self-discipline, and self-discipline is the one thing our sinful flesh will resist.

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#8. A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation.

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#9. ignited and sustained by God. Indwelling sin provides us with marvelous proof of God's sustaining grace.

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#10. Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge,

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#11. This is why the Christian life is about Christ. Or to say it more starkly, "to live is Christ" (Phil. 1:21).

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#12. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

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#13. The Christian's hope is based not on our unsettling feelings of joy in Christ, but on Christ himself.

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#14. John Newton's final recorded words: My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.

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#15. Books are great tools, but they are disappointing gods. And once books become idols, those idols will leave us deeply unsatisfied.

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#16. Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book,
but to use our books to grow Christlike character

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#17. We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives.

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#18. Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.

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#19. The question of this book is simple: What is the best use of my smartphone in the flourishing of my life? To that end, my aim is to avoid both extremes: the utopian optimism of the technophiliac and the dystopian pessimistic of the technophobe.

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#20. I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Sin is the move away from simple devotion to Christ. Sin is spiritual complexity.

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#21. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.

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#22. True happiness is not found. It finds you.

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#23. We cannot keep our eyes focused on Jesus while our greed lusts for worldly security. We may go through the motions, but eventually the misplaced priority of worldliness will corrode the soul's joy.

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#24. Sin is what makes the things we know we ought to do so difficult and lifeless.

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#25. The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite.

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#26. Illuminated by the gospel, we now perceive and enjoy God's truth, goodness, and beauty - whether it's in the blazing sun of the inspired Word of God, in the moonlight of creation, or in the starlight of great books.

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#27. Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time - something that is impossible without a risen Savior.

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#28. Keeping Christ in view at all times is, by far, the hardest - and the most essential - part of our calling as Christians.

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#29. Don't allow unfinished books to pile up in a mountain of guilt. Show patience with a book, but cut the ties when necessary and move on.

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#30. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.

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#31. A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32

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