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3.5⭐️

“The fact that science never gets to the end of things - either the infinite or the infinitesimal - points to how we’re made for an even greater knowing: we’re made to know God.”

“Salvation isn’t only a transaction in which sin is removed and debt is cleared, it’s God’s promise to dress us in goodness, gentleness, joy, truth, and peace. To clothe us in what He’s clothed in, to make us like Him through His desire and grace.

“I can repeat ‘Do as you would be done by’ till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.”

(I know, the punctuation in this drives me crazy as well, but still good points from CS Lewis)

“It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power - it’s is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.”

“We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.”

“Our battle is not with or against people, but against the devil and the spiritual forces of evil that wage war against God, his kingdom, his church, and his people.” (Page 298)

“Faith is never just a matter of what you do with your mind. It is always a transaction of a willing and submissive heart that alters the way you approach every area of your life.”

“So life is full of daily hardships and death’s leftovers, yet it is also marked by life and love - love from God, love for God, and love toward God’s people. And where there is love, expect joy.”

“Rather this is a God who becomes human and offers his own lifeblood in order to honor moral justice and merciful love so that someday he can destroy all evil without destroying us”