“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.”
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
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