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“Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.”
― The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
― The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
“The Christian life, he says, is to enjoy and reflect the beauty of God. Everything Edwards wrote on Christian living funnels down into this. All the obedience and giving and generosity and kindness and praying and Bible reading in the world, without a heart-sense of divine beauty, is empty. Even damning.”
― Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God
― Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God
“Karl Barth once wittily remarked, “One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.”
― The Trinitarian Devotion of John Owen
― The Trinitarian Devotion of John Owen
“What an honor must it be,” preached Edwards, “to a creature who is infinitely below God, and less than he, to be beautified and adorned with this beauty, with that beauty which is the highest beauty of God himself, even holiness.”
― Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God
― Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God
“This loss of the concept of majesty has come just when the forces of religion are making dramatic gains and the churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.”
― The Pursuit of God and Other Classics
― The Pursuit of God and Other Classics
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