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“Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The”
― Knowledge of the Holy
― Knowledge of the Holy
“Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. We want to get Him where we can use Him, or at least know where He is when we need Him. We want a God we can in some measure control.”
― Knowledge of the Holy
― Knowledge of the Holy
“The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord, In every star Thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold Thy Word, We read Thy name in fairer lines. Isaac Watts”
― Knowledge of the Holy
― Knowledge of the Holy
“Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. We cover our deep ignorance with words, but we are ashamed to wonder, we are afraid to whisper “mystery.”
― Knowledge of the Holy
― Knowledge of the Holy
“If we reduce human beings to being simply physical—as Western thought is prone to do—our poverty-alleviation efforts will tend to focus on material solutions. But if we remember that humans are spiritual, social, psychological, and physical beings, our poverty-alleviation efforts will be more holistic in their design and execution.”
― When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
― When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
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