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“It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.”
― John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait: A Sixteenth Century Portrait
― John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait: A Sixteenth Century Portrait
“Isn’t the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?”
― Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
― Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
“It’s God saying, “I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain the metaphor) until matters happened to, through no effort of his own, land him upon safe and welcoming shores.”
― Artful
― Artful
“The new pastoral style, which John XXIII intended, has much to do with what he said during his opening speech, when he spoke about the medicine of mercy. Since that time, the theme of mercy has become fundamental not only for the council, but also for the entire pastoral praxis of the postconciliar church.”
― Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life
― Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life
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