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“Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.”
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance. I didn’t want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be free—like Gypsy. I wanted life itself, the color and fire and loveliness of life. And Christ now and then, like a loved poem I could read when I wanted to. I didn’t want us to be swallowed up in God. I wanted holidays from the school of Christ.”
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.”
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”
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“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians--when they are sombre and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths. But, though it is just to condemn some Christians for these things, perhaps, after all, it is not just, though very easy, to condemn Christianity itself for them. Indeed, there are impressive indications that the positive quality of joy is in Christianity--and possibly nowhere else. If that were certain, it would be proof of a very high order”
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