“Someone might object that they have been taught that God loves sinners, including those who sin racially, unconditionally. No, God loves sinners in Christ. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The only place where a sinner can possibly be a recipient of God’s love is in Christ. God’s love for sinners was bestowed and manifested in one place only, and that place was the cross of Christ. And so what happens to those who hate Christ, who despise His cross, who insist on turning their face away from Him? What happens to those who stand aloof from God’s solitary provision for sinners? They remain outside in the twilight—a twilight that is rapidly becoming the outer darkness. Where they stand, they hate God, and God hates them.”
― Skin and Blood
― Skin and Blood
“The smells in the forest were beyond all that he had ever conceived. To say that they made him feel hungry and thirsty would be misleading; almost, they created a new kind of hunger and thirst, a longing that seemed to flow over from the body into the soul and which was a heaven to feel. Again and again he stood still, clinging to some branch to steady himself, and breathed it all in, as if breathing had become a kind of ritual.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“Let us lament our own perversity, and say: “Lord, what a heart I have that
needs all this, so that none of this could be spared!”
― The Bruised Reed
needs all this, so that none of this could be spared!”
― The Bruised Reed
“Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“But if God brings us into the cross, He will be with us in the cross, and at length, bring us out more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross.”
― The Bruised Reed
― The Bruised Reed
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