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(although that interpretation is certainly hard to deny when we glance at the ranks of women who are trying to argue they should be pastors—“Gullible” and “Incapable of Critical Thinking” appear to be the two main planks of their party
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This is snide and hateful.
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“And that is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven,” and the Lost, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Why does it matter that she be educated in the faith? If we can just get past our indignation about how she should learn, it might behoove us to ask why Paul thinks it’s important that she learn at all… And I do think he answers that question: It’s because when Eve was deceived and believed the wrong thing, look at the incredible destruction it caused. Eve was deceived—her intellect fell into error—but that wasn’t Adam’s problem in that moment. He wasn’t deceived at all—but he went with Eve anyway.”
― Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
― Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
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