“A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”
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“The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”
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“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.”
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
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