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“However hard some things are to understand, it is never helpful to start picking and choosing biblical truths we find congenial, as if the Bible is an open-shelved supermarket where we are at perfect liberty to choose only the chocolate bars. For the Christian, it is God's Word, and it is not negotiable. What answers we find may not be exhaustive, but they give us the God who is there, and who gives us some measure of comfort and assurance. The alternative is a god we manufacture, and who provides no comfort at all. Whatever comfort we feel is self-delusion, and it will be stripped away at the end when we give an account to the God who has spoken to us, not only in Scripture, but supremely in his Son Jesus Christ.”
― D.A. Carson, How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil

“Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“I don’t want to come here anymore.” Mom turned to me as I was sending them to the security check. She kept crying. Her eyes were red from daily washing with tears. I never thought I would face a choice between my parents and myself. One was the source of unconditional love for the last twenty-nine years; the other was the true self that I had just accepted after twenty-nine years of hiding and struggling.”
― Nick (Yu) He, Two Dads and Three Girls: Searching for Sexual Identity, Falling in Love, and Building a Family through Surrogacy

“God is infinitely creative—that means His creativity has no end. And God shows His creativity in you. You began as a blank page in His book, and He began writing your story before you were even born. It’s going to be a great one! Don’t believe it? Just check out some of the amazing stories He’s already written for “ordinary” people just like you—David knocking out Goliath, Daniel napping with lions, and Esther saving her people. God’s got an amazing story in the works for you—just wait and see!”
― Louie Giglio, Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God and Science