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"What good and bold thing to you long to do, as an offering of thanks to God for his grace towards you?"

one of my favorite books so far. definitely calls me greater joy. life is good. life is short.

• “The Jewish Talmud wisely explains that everyone must give an account to God of everything one saw in life and did not enjoy…Biblically speaking, part of fearing God means relishing even his earthy gifts and having a fantastic time when we are young. Anything else is disobedience. Bold enjoyment is a serious matter.”

• “The one caring for you today will be the one caring for you tomorrow. He is not tired and he is not tired of you. He enjoys being kind to high maintenance sinners.”

• “All the other noble pleasures that life affords are doubled for the christian, for they taste God in all his or her pleasures, and this increases them. For others, pleasure brings a sense of hollowness, which reduces it.”

• “When scripture corrects the neglect of women, it doesn’t overcorrect to the neglect of men.”

• “Enjoying the enjoyable is a part of christian virtue… a strength.”

Fav quotes:

• “Dark, legalistic, religious austerity can seem holy, in a smug kind of way and safely distant from the urgent needs of our world, but both the drunken joyride and the darken monastery will break our hearts.”

• “If you’ve given your heart to him, your earthly joys are prophetic whispers of your eternal future in christ…sorrow is temporary. Joy is eternal. Wisdom gets that.”

• “Joy is the path of wisdom.”
• “Life is short and life is good…What makes your short life good, is the grace of God giving your life to you, moment by moment. Your part is to receive it—not deserve it, or achieve it, control it—just receive it and enjoy this good gift from God which is your life.”
• “God is the great giver of everything truly desirable.”

this is my happy protest!!!!!!