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"Serious here to work through before progressing much further. How do I hope my children will see the world when they are 12/18? How can I acknowledge and move on from both father blessings and father wounds?" — May 11, 2026 07:14PM
"Serious here to work through before progressing much further. How do I hope my children will see the world when they are 12/18? How can I acknowledge and move on from both father blessings and father wounds?" — May 11, 2026 07:14PM
“Religion is the socially enacted desire for the ultimate that binds a group into a moral community.”
― High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America
― High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America
“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
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“the most vivid and arresting element of the portrait, is the way the Holy Son of God moves toward, touches, heals, embraces, and forgives those who least deserve it yet truly desire it.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“This prophecy against Eli emphasizes that you can end up in grave sin by thinking it very important to be nice to people. How easy it is to practice a gutless compassion that never wants to offend anyone, that equates niceness with love and thereby ignores God's law and essentially despises his holiness. We do not necessarily seek God's honor when we spare human feelings.”
― Davis's Commentaries on Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel
― Davis's Commentaries on Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel
“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
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