“Harm to you is not harm to me in the strict sense, and that is a great part of the problem. He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“For in the Christian story, the antagonist is not non-Christians but the reality of sin, which (as the gospel tells us) lies within us as well as within them.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“Every other religion in the world has man in the gutter trying to figure out how to get to heaven; only Christianity has heaven coming down to the gutter.”
― The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together
― The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together
“Life, if only we attended to it more closely, raises prompts, pointers, clues, hints, epiphanies, all exclaiming that our here-and-now world is simply not all there is. There is a reality beyond the immediate that beckons toward a deeper and ultimate meaning of things, whatever it may be.”
― The Great Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning
― The Great Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning
“In retrospect, I’m very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
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