“In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can’t pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.”
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
“Let’s let go of the illusion that hesed can be reduced to one English “literal” word and instead see it as a key that can open a door into an entire world—the world of God’s own heart, the world of loving”
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
“I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.”
― The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford
― The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford
“Let’s ask for the grace to be in awe of the God who, when he opened the door of his life to us, had this word consistently on his lips, remembering that even though we have no right to expect anything from him he is pleased to give us everything. He is pleased to open his heart and life to us precisely because he is the God of hesed.”
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
“Disillusioned by all our other efforts, we now see that the only hope left for the human race is to become like Christ.”
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
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Ekklesia founded in 594 BC in Athens and used in the New Testament for the church of the Living God.
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