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So, I live by faith in God, who makes sense of things. Still, there is so much I can’t make sense of.
“... there is an order God put into things when he created the world and by which we must abide. But on the other hand this is a fallen world, distorted by son, and the wise know that the created order does not always work, nor is it always easy to discern.”
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“In a perfect world, what is just is also fair. In a fallen world, however, justice does not always feel fair. in our fallen humidity we often bristle at the holiness of a God who's justice does not always strike us as fair.”
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
“Gratitude exclaims... 'How good of God to give me this.' Adoration says, 'What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!' One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“The week with its failures and successes has taught me one new lesson. It is this: 'I must talk about God, or I cannot keep Him in my mind. I must give Him away in order to have Him.' That is the law of the spirit world. What one gives one has, what one keeps to oneself one loses.”
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
“Apart from a unifying whole, virtues are like lifeless limbs severed from the body that once gave them purpose. Severed from an understanding of human purpose, virtue becomes more emotivism.”
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
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