• lastport: I have arrived at today only by your mercy! Let me not live in ignorance, but increase in knowledge; abolish carnal thoughts, & vain glory.
• rcsprouljr: God’s grace is cutting away sin in me that I am too sinful to see. He loves me more than I love my sin
• TonyGWood: If I say that I walk with Jesus, my footprints should cover the same ground. ~1 Jn 2:6
• desiringgod: John Piper: “In the gospel God has done everything necessary to enthrall us with what’ll make us eternally happy—himself.”
• theResurgence: For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. – Matthew 6:21
• JarridWilson: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline…” (2 Timothy 1:7-9)
• TozerAW: “You can’t truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.” AW Tozer
• RickWarren: God has been with me; God is with me; God will be with me. “He’ll be with you,never leave you,nor forsake you” Deut.31:8
• BurkParsons: Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind (1 Peter 3).
• PastorTullian: Freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

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• APuritansMind: Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks. – Thomas Goodwin
• CSLewis_: We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn’- C. S. Lewis
• BurkParsons: Christians can be the greatest dreamers, for our most glorious dreams can’t compare with what God has promised, which is beyond imagination.
• PastorTullian: The gospel always has the last word over a Christian. Always!
• BurkParsons: Christians can be the greatest dreamers, for our most glorious dreams can’t compare with what God has promised, which is beyond imagination.
• JarridWilson: “God, even our failures find Hope in your Grace.”
• JohnPiper: When the salt is reviled and the light is scorned, it’s how you respond that gives the world a taste and sight of His glory.
• ScottyWardSmith: “God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.” E. Elliot
• JustinBuzzard: Your behavior doesn’t qualify or disqualify your standing w/ God, Jesus does the qualifying.
• BurkParsons: We don’t believe in the sovereignty of God, we believe God, who is sovereign. If we don’t believe he’s sovereign, we don’t believe he’s God.

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• TozerAW: “A Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.” AW Tozer
• theResurgence: For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. – Romans 6:14
• albertmohler: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. . . . it cannot be moderately important.” CS Lewis
• JarridWilson: If our hearts don’t break for all who are broken, we can’t truly call ourselves Christ followers.
• RefTrust: Regeneration is open-heart surgery, a soul-reviving work of the Spirit that probes to the deepest level of a person’s being. -Steven Lawson
• desiringgod: John Piper: “Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”
• CSLewis_: It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men – C. S. Lewis
• RefTrust: God hates sin more than any human judge, & He has decreed that the “wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). -Richard Phillips
• PastorMark: “God saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace.” 2 Timothy 1:9
• RefTrust: The moment we drift away from the gospel, we perish. But if we remain on the narrow gospel way, it brings us all the way home. -Derek Thomas

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• APuritansMind: I warrant you there were not many hypocrites in the catacombs of Rome, when to be a Christian involved almost certain death- Spurgeon
• MichaelMinot: Learning how God made each person to be a unique expression of Himself helps solve many difficulties we may have with others.
• PastorTullian: “We read the Bible as a recipe book for Christian living instead of the account of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.”
• Spurgeon_: It cannot be that my Lord has made me sick of this world, and yet will not give me another – Spurgeon
• BurkParsons: Jesus didn’t come, live and die for us on the cross to make the father love us, he came, lived and died because the father loved us.
• jamesmacdonald: People run from God, trying to find what their heart is longing for in things that never satisfy.
• BurkParsons: Lord, bring revival and bring us to our knees by any sovereign means necessary, even if you must destroy the golden calf we keep rebuilding.
• jamesmacdonald: If you live for things & self & your own satisfaction, then don’t be surprised when you hear the Lord say at the end, “I never knew you.”
• FSchaeffer: “If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.” Francis Schaeffer
• JosemarBessa: If the wooings of Christ’s wounds cannot make you love Christ, do you think the flames of hell will? – Spurgeon

Thank you, volunteer @ChrisMeans8, for compiling this list for us.

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Gospel-driven tweets from this last week:

• JarridWilson: I stand on the word of God. I trust in its innate orchestration. I believe that Jesus is the reason I am standing here today.
• NationsBeGlad: “Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him all peoples!” (Ps 117:1). If it is God’s goal, it must be our goal. – John Piper
• jamesmacdonald: God’s Word isn’t a buffet. You don’t get to pick and choose the parts you like.
• desiringgod: R. C. Sproul: “The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.”
• CSLewisDaily: Our worst prayers may really be our best. God seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us off guard-CSLewis
• desiringgod: John Piper: “The Christian life is a life of being carried from beginning to end. We work. Yet it is not we, but God who works within us.”
• JarridWilson: We all want to be saved from the flood, but no one wants to build the boat. Be the change. Be bold. Be courageous.
• JustinBuzzard: Either Jesus pays for your sins, or you pay for your sins. Let Jesus pay.
• ScottyWardSmith: Love God and do as he pleases
• RickWarren: “May God’s grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying love” Eph. 6:24

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• JarridWilson: The Lord does not see things the way we do. He does not judge by appearance or looks, but by our Hearts. (1 Samuel 16:7)
• ScottyWardSmith: “The things that are impossible with man are possible with God.” Luke 18:27
• APuritansMind: Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare- John Owen
• rayortlund: “Faithful and just art thou, forgiving all. Lord, let the cleansing blood, blood of the Lamb of God, pass o’er my soul.”
• truthclothing: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– Ephesians 2:8
• jamesmacdonald: Returning to God is more than removing overt sin–it’s about 1000 refinements which take you deeper & further into all that knowing Him is.
• RickWarren: Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount will guide you but only his Suffering on the Mount will save you.
• Ligonier: If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don’t believe in God. -R.C. Sproul
• TozerAW: “Many come short, being satisfied with the works of God rather than hungering for and reaching on to God Himself.” AW Tozer
• JustinBuzzard: Believe the gospel. Follow Jesus. And break the old rules you used to live by.

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• theResurgence: For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2:5
• desiringgod: Calvin: “Creating faith is the principle work of the Holy Spirit.”
• JCRyleQuotes: “Let us strive to be so thoroughly acquainted with the Bible, that its text may abide in our memories and there for us in need.” ~ JC Ryle
• the5iveSolas: ”in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” -1Thessalonians 5:18
• JarridWilson: Don’t let worrying about tomorrow affect your relationship with God today. Matthew 6:34
• NationsBeGlad: Platt: “Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.”
• Spurgeon_: None but those that fear the Lord will ever walk in his ways – Spurgeon
• ScottyWardSmith: “Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.” Spurgeon
• JarridWilson: Our lives should be so infected with the love of God, that people see His Hope in our eyes.
• Grace_Quotes: Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things. – Charles Spurgeon

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• desiringgod: R. C. Sproul: “If the final decision for the salvation of sinners were left in the hands of sinners, we would despair “
• theResurgence: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:17
• JarridWilson: It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. Stand up and shout the truth. Let us reclaim Hope in world built on hopeless values.
• BannerofTruth: “By regeneration we are made members of God’s kingdom (John 3:35); by adoption members of His family (Gal. 4:5,6)” – John Murray
• SafeHarborInt: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…” (Romans 1:16 ESV)
• NationsBeGlad: If I hadn’t felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love&mercy, I couldn’t have survived my suffering -AJudson
• desiringgod: John Piper: “We glorify God when our service comes from faith in His strength, bc the one who gives the strength gets the glory”
• biblicalcc: The Christian life is not a playground; it is a battle ground. Warren Wiersbe
• Ligonier: It is the teaching of Christ that makes His disciples blossom and bloom, producing fruit in their season. (RC Sproul)
• PaulTripp: Grace means you don’t try to obey your way out of guilt or fear. No, grace means you are free from fear because your guilt has been covered.

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• desiringgod: Martin Luther: “Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.”
• desiringgod: Charles Spurgeon: “A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.”
• burk_parsons: Lord, you’ve been a stronghold to the poor and the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm (Isa 25).
• RefTrust: The tabernacle & the temple were…magnificent works of art that bore testimony to God’s glory & the beauty of His holiness. -R.C. Sproul
• CSLewis_: Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? – C. S. Lewis
• Spurgeon_: If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all – Spurgeon
• AWTozer_: There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure – A. W. Tozer
• TozerAW: “The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.” AW Tozer
• ScottyWardSmith: The blood of Jesus covers the most wretched things we thought and said today, and all the sins of which we are clueless
• paulwasher: Each generation of Christians is a steward of the Gospel, and is called to guard through the Spirit the treasure that is entrusted to it.

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• JosemarBessa: Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent- Jonathan Edwards
• APuritansMind: The word of God to an unregenerate heart is like a trumpet at the ear of a corpse: the sound is lost – Charles Spurgeon
• PastorTullian: Whatever deficiency lies at the root of your restlessness, the missing component is something very specific that Christ has secured for you.
• theResurgence: For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3
• Lyssielulu: The greatest need of the hour is a revived & joyful church. Unhappy Christians are a poor recommendation of the Christian faith -Lloyd-Jones
• JohnPiper: God is true. All humans are dead in sin. Christ crucified, risen, preached, and believed is the only life. Go tell everyone.
• JohnPiper_: Faith is the evidence of new birth, not the cause of it.
• JarridWilson: If your spiritual life is buried in routine, something is wrong. Life with God is an adventure, not an agenda.
• AWTozer_: We must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. A.W.Tozer
• ShaiLinne: “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name saying..’The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them” Lk. 21:8

Thank you to volunteer @ChrisMeans8 for compiling this list.

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