“Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.” PeopleWorldDoneJesusChristCan DoDifferencesAliveAcceptanceJesus ChristBe GoodFollowersGood PeopleConformDeitiesOther WorldsDead PeopleWorld Religions Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.” IfsThinkingFeelsCountryBodyRunningFoundCan DoStyleCrossesDistanceSpeedBe GoodYour BodyFeel Good Author:Catherine Ndereba
“Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.” WorldTryingHardRealityChristianCan DoPrayingCreaturesBe GoodHolinessNew WorldEasterBaptismCan Do Something Author:N. T. Wright
“We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.” PeopleTryingBigsSeemsMightCultureBlackTermCan DoConditionsDangerousCrowdsBe GoodConsumersFriday4th Of JulyJulyConsumer CultureBlack Friday Author:John Seabrook
“If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.” IfsI CanShowsCan DoRolesEgoIntentionBe GoodBlock Author:Ezra Miller