Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.
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Related It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are ... CHARLES W. COLSON No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms '... JERRY BRIDGES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W... AKIROQ BROST What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our combat with the devil always should be with the consciousness that we have authority always shou... KENNETH E. HAGIN Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumst... SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are en... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I a... PAULO COELHO And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... HENRY CLOUD We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO The farmer in us makes us do the things we do SOTONYE ANGA Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo... ANGIE KARAN Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God. L.J. VANIER We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holines... JAMES R. WHITE We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it. We cannot ... YOWERI MUSEVENI When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES (The game against Ottawa) was progress for us, but we need to be taking bigger steps forward than th... ALEX STEEN Dear 2016, If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms! JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God SOTONYE ANGA I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven. DEBASISH MRIDHA We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit... MICHAEL HARRIS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO [...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit SUNDAY ADELAJA There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap SOTONYE ANGA I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat... MARTIN SUAREZ Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now formi... ROBERT E. LEE When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply... JUDITH BUTLER We are not defined by our trials,
but by how we face them.
We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,
t... JILL ANZINGER If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO You are worth more than you think you are SOTONYE ANGA
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JEFF BRIDGES If your boat is in a toilet bowl going down, it may look better then the climb up. CHUCK BRIDGES Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a ... JEFF BRIDGES I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the ... LEON BRIDGES I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I rea... LEON BRIDGES I will not let thee go. / Had not the great sun seen, I might; / Or were he reckoned slow / To bring... ROBERT BRIDGES The hill pines were sighing, / O'ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotte... ROBERT BRIDGES The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun. ROBERT BRIDGES Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West. ROBERT BRIDGES There's a lot of room for argument. ANDREW BRIDGES There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the... JEFF BRIDGES Give love, and love to your life will flow. MADELINE BRIDGES I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t... BEAU BRIDGES Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a pro... JEFF BRIDGES I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in curren... JEFF BRIDGES I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photogra... JEFF BRIDGES If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it? CHUCK BRIDGES It's more than six years since my last hat-trick so it was sweet to get another one. I'm getting bac... MICHAEL BRIDGES Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w... U.Z. BRIDGES Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are... WILLIAM BRIDGES You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve... JEFF BRIDGES The parents had a lot of fun, but they were real sore the next morning. They're not used to running ... CAROLE BRIDGES I saw the opportunity to do something for the entire city, not just a softball program, but also a p... CAROLE BRIDGES