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There are forces adversarial to love and grace in the world, and I don’t care all that much if you think those forces are due to Beelzebub, a dark tendency of human psychology, or the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If God is love and if love
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“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
“The origin stories of Scripture remind us we belong to a very large and very old family that has been walking with God from the beginning. Even when we falter and fall, this God is in it for the long haul. We will not be abandoned.”
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“it wasn’t the clothes that made this face, this woman, different. It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw—a hope or belief or conviction—that a life is not fixed, a thing unalterable. I don’t have a word for what it was I saw, but I suppose it was something like faith.”
― Educated
― Educated
“In short, we have on our hands a Bible as complicated and dynamic as our relationship with God, one that reads less like divine monologue and more like an intimate conversation.”
― Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
― Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
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