“For me, writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.”
― Keeping the Heart
― Keeping the Heart
“Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God’s assignment to serve others.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“It’s your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.”
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
“There is, then, a great gulf between the understanding that God accepts us because of our efforts and the understanding that God accepts us because of what Jesus has done. Religion operates on the principle “I obey—therefore I am accepted by God.” But the operating principle of the gospel is “I am accepted by God through what Christ has done—therefore I obey.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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