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This isn't a book you can just "one and done". It is one you will refer back to again and again and again. What is stunning is how much Progressive Christianity has crept into even mainstream and conservative churches without most people noticing. Re
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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