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“By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.”

People Knows Whole Sin Missing Prove Behavior Solutions Deserve Strive Code Serving God Knowing God God's Love Gift From God

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.”

People Ifs Giving Has Beens Simple Prove Behavior Smart Tools Affirmation Exhibits Prove It

Author:Biz Stone

“While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.”

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”

Mind Literature Peace Prove Behavior Inner Peace Peace Of Mind Nervousness

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”

People Humans May Said States My Own Theory Mom Sorrow Prove Behavior Unique Bird Miracle Strive Greed Stupidity Being Human Human Behavior Exhibits

Author:Douglas Coupland

“What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?”

Trying Humans Animal Prove Behavior Human Behavior

Book:Microserfs: A Novel

Source: Microserfs: A Novel