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“Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's the other way around. The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely--from top to bottom, from beginning to end--by grace.”
― Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
― Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
“Faith is more like being faithful to your husband or wife than it is like believing in magic. Fidelity is key. You may fall in love with someone because of how well they complement your story, but you’ll prove yourself faithful to them only when you care more for the flawed, difficult, and unplotted life you end up sharing with them. Faith isn’t the opposite of knowledge. Rather, like love, faith perfects knowledge by practicing fidelity to it.”
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“In itself, doubt is neither good nor bad. Its value depends on what you do with it.”
― Letters to a Young Mormon
― Letters to a Young Mormon
“Grace isn’t God’s improvised response to sin. Sin is our ongoing refusal of God’s already given grace.”
― Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
― Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
“In sin, we come unplugged. When we refuse the givenness of life and withdraw from the present moment, we’re left to wander the world undead. Zombie-like, we wander from one moment to the next with no other goal than to get somewhere else, be someone else, see something else—anywhere, anyone, anything other than what is given here and now. We’re busy. We’ve got goals and projects. We’ve got plans. We’ve got fantasies. We’ve got daydreams. We’ve got regrets and memories. We’ve got opinions. We’ve got distractions. We’ve got games and songs and movies and a thousand TV shows. We’ve got anything and everything other than a first-hand awareness of our own lived experience of the present moment.”
― Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology
― Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology
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