First, the teaching is not that we should hide our good deeds. That might be appropriate in some cases, but it is not Jesus’ point. There is nothing inherently wrong with their being known. Just as in the case of “adultery in the heart,”
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“One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.”
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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.
'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“From the beginning God’s people are to be “missionary.” They are chosen to be a channel of blessing to others. But in order to be a missionary people they have to be formed to be like the promise they carry.”
― The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
― The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realised the new wonder; but even they hardly realised that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
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