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Barb Terpstra
http://www.babsbonmots.blogspot.com
If understood, believed, and lived out, God’s plan would naturally place Christians at the epicenter of their communities, like hope magnets, like soft places to fall, like living sanctuaries.
“Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.”
― The Singer Trilogy
― The Singer Trilogy
“So you see, Jesus is on both sides. He is on the side of the victims, and he is also on the side of the perpetrators. That is why the Christian gospel is so radical. It is radically inclusive in ways that the politically correct crowd doesn't dream of. The gospel refuses to divide the world up into the correct and the incorrect, the righteous and the unrighteous, the innocent and the guilty. Jesus takes all that into himself.”
― Help My Unbelief
― Help My Unbelief
“The call to the Corinthian church was the call to love the fellow human being right there in the next pew, and to love him with all the love of God. For the love of God is the love of Christ, and the love of Christ is for victims and victimizers alike.”
― Help My Unbelief
― Help My Unbelief
“The difference between
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Help My Unbelief
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Help My Unbelief
“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”
― Unravel Me
― Unravel Me
Q&A with Nafisa Haji, author of The Writing on My Forehead
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