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That is the shock that Barrett’s book captures: Meeting the God you thought you knew, and being shocked by his sheer godness.
“Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.”
― Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen
― Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen
“They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.”
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“The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.”
― The Mortification of Sin
― The Mortification of Sin
“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
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