“Paul teaches that mature Christians are serious about the things of God and pursue God seriously, because when Christ is revealed in all His glory, we want to be raised with Him. We want all the riches. We want Him with us always. We don’t want a life-sized salvation; rather, we want an eternity-sized salvation. So we don’t stop at conversion; we press on. Because we want to make it evident that we believe someone is going to step in at that final moment and say, “I paid for that. I absorbed that. What was due for that, I paid for it all, not according to their riches but according to Mine.”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“If we could get out of our heads the idea that the future is something God simply knows and get into our heads the idea that the future is a place where God already is, that He doesn’t just know about the past and see the present and know about the future, but that He stands outside of time and reigns over all of it sovereignly, what would we have to be anxious about?”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.”
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“You will find, if you seriously study Scripture, that outside of the idea of hell, there is no more terrifying idea in the Bible than God setting you free to run in the imagination of your heart.”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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