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“The material creation was made by God to be developed, cultivated, and cared for in an endless number of ways through human labor. But even the simplest of these ways is important. Without them all, human life cannot flourish.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.”
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“we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“The text says that when the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, _he_ loved her. God was saying, 'I am the real bridegroom. I am the husband of the husbandless. I am the father of the fatherless.' This is the God who saves by grace. The gods of moralistic religions favor the successful and the overachievers. THe are the ones who climb the moral ladder up to heaven. But the God of the Bible is the one who comes down into this world to accomplish a salvation and give us a grace we could never attain ourselves.”
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
― Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
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