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“This parlor is the heart of a man who was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel. The dust is his sin and inward corruption which has defiled the whole man. The one who began to sweep at first is the law, but she who brought
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I just heard someone woke reference this analogy of the gospel as to why women must be the salvific gender (facepalm).
“Charity is the love of God. There is no other way to control passion. There is no other route to purity. There is no other route, finally, to joy”
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?”
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
― Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Our forgetfulness is, at the least, a secret denial of God's power in the works of creation and providence. It ushers in distrust of Him and introduces the fear of man”
― Divine Providence: A Classic Work for Modern Readers
― Divine Providence: A Classic Work for Modern Readers
“The experience of martyrdom and persecution has been the crucible in which Orthodox Christians have found their faith refined.”
― Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
― Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
“Seventhly, if we use the phrase "ultimate end" in this highest sense, then the same that is God's ultimate end in creating the world, if we suppose but one such end, must be what he makes his ultimate aim in all his works, in everything he does either in creation or providence. But we must suppose that in the use which God puts the creatures to that he hath made, he must evermore have a regard to the end for which he has made them. But if we take "ultimate end" in the other lower sense, God may sometimes have regard to those things as ultimate ends, in particular works of providence, which could not in any proper sense be his last end in creating the world.”
― The End for Which God Created the World
― The End for Which God Created the World
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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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