Without sin we should be like God in the way that baby bears are like mother bears; God gives and loves by nature as surely as a duck quacks by nature – God’s love isn’t some kind of acquired skill.
“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is not, 'What does this mean?' but 'What can I obey?' A simple act of obedience will open up our lives to this text far more quickly than any number of Bible studies and dictionaries and concordances.”
― Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
― Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.”
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
“Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
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