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“Wisdom depends on a measure of good fortune. Broken by poverty and illness, even the wise become fools. But riches don’t guarantee wisdom either. Wisdom is just as easily destroyed by greed and bribes. As a result, no one is safe from idiocy until they’re dead. This is another reason why ends are better than beginnings. Patience”
― Adam S. Miller, Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes

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“Grace isn’t God’s improvised response to sin. Sin is our ongoing refusal of God’s already given grace.”
― Adam S. Miller, Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

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“Also, don’t be that fool who runs around yelling: “The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Once upon a time the world was good! The old days were so much better! The world is about to end!” This is nonsense. There is nothing new under the sun. The world is as it has ever been: full of hungry, selfish, ignorant people who can’t see what’s right in front of them. Wisdom, like a windfall, can be good if you find it. It can help you see things for what they are. It can help protect you from your own foolishness. But wisdom has its limits. Consider”
― Adam S. Miller, Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes

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“The gospel: a promise that joy does not depend on what is given but on its givenness.”
― Adam S. Miller, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

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“According to Isaiah it is necessary, at least for a time, that the messiah go unrecognized. It is crucial that, at least for a while, he remain hidden, that he not shine forth, that he have “no form, nor comeliness” and that he possess “no beauty that we should desire him” (Isa. 53:2). The Messiah’s coming must be delayed. This is necessary, at least in part, because the very act of recognition has messianic force. The shock of recognition changes us. The advent of the messianic depends on our seeing what was previously unseen. It should be no surprise, then, if the messianic is initially obscure, hidden under a rock, given in a grove, or stowed in a stable.”
― Adam S. Miller, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

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