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For many people the doctrine of the Trinity is nothing but a hopeless puzzle, the pieces of which simply do not fit. Three is not one and one is not three, no matter how you figure it.
“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
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“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”
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“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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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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