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“But, as Polkinghorne states: God’s perfection is not the static holding of the topmost metaphysical peak, but it lies in the total love of his unfailing action. It is the perfection that belongs to life and not to lifelessness.4”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“An unmoving watch may have its place in a timeless universe, but it is all but useless in a world where the seconds tick by. In the same way, we might rightly question what comfort there would be in journeying through life with a God who is continually unable or unwilling to respond, in real time, to the desires expressed in our prayers. God in his power could have chosen to relate to us in such a way, but his love has embraced a different path.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“Mental punishments are not helpful because they deal with sin in a self-centered way instead of a Christ-centered way.”
― Heath Lambert, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace

“And God’s ultimate purpose for us, which is also unchanging, is that his divine nature might be recreated within us. To this end he desires to draw us ever closer to his Son. For those who are already Christians we call this movement “sanctification”; for non-Christians we may call it “mission”. But the direction is the same, ever Christward.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer