Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And that's why so many people are half alive. They haven't died to self yet.

~ Mark Batterson

Mark Batterson Flesh Resurrection Self Sinful Nature

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Character Diligence Sinful Nature

I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....

~ Joseph Conrad

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