Jim Berg Quotes

#1. The point is that all of life is "pointless" - vanity or emptiness - unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

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#2. For the illuminated believer, however, the unifying and satisfying element in every circumstance is always the glory of God, not some sentimental, rose-colored view of the situation that makes him feel better about it.

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#3. Despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.

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#4. The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

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#5. God has created in man the desire for Himself and has offered Himself as the object of man's desire. He is the only One sufficient to fill the God-shaped hole within man's soul.

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#6. A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.

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#7. Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

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#8. Strong Christian homes cannot be built out of weak Christians.

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#9. The fact is that if the Christian home, church, and school have done their job well and the student has learned well, he may be one of the few on the earth who understand the real world.

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#10. The unbelieving world increasingly rejects the truth about God, while the believing world increasingly ignores the truth about God.

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#11. God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.

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#12. Don't miss the heart issues when dealing with the surface problems!

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#13. Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

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#14. She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.

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#15. More and more believers are tasting the same despair the world lives in because they have chosen to "walk ... as other Gentiles walk, in the [emptiness] of their mind."8

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#16. Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

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#17. This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

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#18. It is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan.

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#19. Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

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#20. God-loving people have no trouble loving God's law since His laws are reflections of His nature.

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#21. A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.

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#22. Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

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#23. How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?

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#24. He was right. Without God at the center, it is hopeless; it is empty; and it was designed by God to be so. The theme of Ecclesiastes could be stated, Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box!

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#25. Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful.

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#26. Any attempt to produce love, joy, peace, endurance, and so forth apart from the Spirit of God is reliance upon strategies that are in competition with God. Management

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#27. Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

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#28. The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.

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#29. When they despair, rather than acknowledging the poverty of their relationship with Jesus Christ, they seek to medicate the "down" feelings10 or distract themselves with activity.

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#30. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.

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