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“By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.45 [1084D] For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystey of his embodiment.”
― On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
― On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.”
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“HUDSON TAYLOR – THE PROGRESSION OF A MISSIONARY CALL:
As child, at age 5: When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.
As a young man:I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.
Late in life, as a veteran missionary:
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.”
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As child, at age 5: When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.
As a young man:I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.
Late in life, as a veteran missionary:
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.”
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“Worship is the practice of cultivating reverence that prevents idolatry and affords powerful symbols to what is ultimate.”
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“Humour is about a clash of perspective that gets resolved with play; absurdity is about a clash of perspectives that we can’t resolve with play.”
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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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