David Van beveren

“The God who could prevent any genuine evil unilaterally is responsible for allowing genuine evil. The one who could stop genuine evil by restraining the perpetrator of evil is morally responsible—or better, culpable—for permitting the painful consequences. We don’t consider morally exemplary those who fail to intervene to prevent horrific events and atrocities, if such prevention were possible.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence

“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

“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

“Emotion is actually nature’s exquisitely efficient information-processing and signaling system, designed to rapidly reorganize behavior in the interests of survival.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships