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I wish I could bathe in this book always! As always Zahl hits the nail on the head and rightly observes human nature, understands the constant striving of people to prove our worth, and then highlights our need for undeserved mercy and grace. This is
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Our divine vocation is not ultimately to suffering, but to a hope that triumphs over suffering. It is the hope of our future inheritance with Christ.
This hope is no mere wish or idle longing of the soul. It is a hope that is rooted in the
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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“Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men "after our own heart." Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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