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“The Spirit’s work of illumination takes what someone knows and shows it to be beautiful so that the heart of the person is drawn out in love and devotion to the beauty perceived. If the person fails to see beauty as beautiful, no amount of convincing can help. They are, we might say, broken. To see true beauty as beautiful, Jesus as the image of the invisible God, fallen humans need to have their souls altered by the Spirit. Only then can we pray with the psalmist that we may “gaze upon the beauty of the LORD” (Ps 27:4). God’s response is to point to Christ.”
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
“To be Reformed is to stress the comprehensive, sovereign, fatherly lordship of God over everything: every area of creation, every creature’s endeavor, and every aspect of the believer’s life. Calvin and Calvinism’s ruling motif is “In the beginning God” (Gen. 1:1).”
― Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination
― Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination
“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard, violent and superficial. Baseball is the generations, looping backward forever with a million apparitions of sticks and balls, cricket and rounders, and the games the Iroquois played in Connecticut before the English came. Baseball is fathers and sons playing catch, lazy and murderous, wild and controlled, the profound archaic song of birth, growth, age, and death. This diamond encloses what we are.”
― Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport
― Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport
“The heart of man is his worst part before regeneration and his best afterwards.”
― Keeping the Heart: In Modern English
― Keeping the Heart: In Modern English
“The Calvinist is the man who sees God: God in nature, God in history, God in grace. Everywhere he sees God in His mighty stepping, everywhere he feels the working of His mighty arm, the throbbing of His mighty heart. The Calvinist is the man who sees God behind all phenomena and in all that occurs recognizes the hand of God, working out His will. [The Calvinist] makes the attitude of the soul to God in prayer its permanent attitude in all its life activities; [he] casts himself on the grace of God alone, excluding every trace of dependence on self from the whole work of his salvation.11”
― Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination
― Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination
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