David Van beveren

“The model of God as essentially kenotic says God’s eternal nature is uncontrolling love. Because of love, God necessarily provides freedom/agency to creatures, and God works by empowering and inspiring creation toward well-being. God also necessarily upholds the regularities of the universe because those regularities derive from God’s eternal nature of love.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence

“To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships

“without emotion to guide us, we have no compass. We are bereft of direction and have nothing to move us toward one option rather than another. We are stuck pondering all the possibilities.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships

“When explaining providence, Wesley says, “Were human liberty taken away, men would be as incapable of virtue as stones. Therefore (with reverence be it spoken) the Almighty himself cannot do this thing. He cannot thus contradict himself or undo what he has done.”43 God must give and cannot take away free will.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence