“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.”
― The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
― The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
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