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You cannot very well do your own baptism. It is done to you, for you.”7 It’s an adoption, not an interview.
“Jewish law might forbid befriending Gentiles, but God’s law never did. Peter narrowed God’s plan until it encompassed his tribe alone. Of course, we do the same thing when we think that God is for my tribe, my country, my people, and my party.”
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
“Greenspan calls this “spiritual bypassing”—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night
“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction,” wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night
“Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“The fact that I was not prepared to resist, in 1935, meant that all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, like me in Germany were also unprepared, and each one of these hundreds of thousands was, like me, a man of great influence or of great potential influence. Thus the world was lost.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
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