“Jesus was not revolutionary because he said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, Oprah, Dr. Phil, the Dali Lama, and probably a lot of Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. "God loves you" doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, ... Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification apart from works, the necessity of new birth, repentance, baptism, Communion, and the future judgment, and the mood in the room changes considerably.”
― Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
― Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”
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“It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
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