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“Nowhere else in the Bible is God described as rich in anything. The only thing he is called rich in is mercy. This means that God is something other than what we naturally believe him to be. It means the Christian life is a lifelong shedding of tepid thoughts of the goodness of God.”

“It is the prerogative of the young to rail against injustice, and it is the fate of the old to endure it.”

“His capacious affections for his own are not threatened by their fickleness, because pouring out of his heart is the turbulence of divine longing. And what God wants, God gets.”

“Our fiery Cathrine was no better than a wailing child.”

“He isn’t like you. Even the most intense of human love is but the faintest echo of heaven’s cascading abundance.”

Reading it AGAIN because the movie disturbed me greatly and Emily Brontë is rolling over in her grave. 3rd time through.

“Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of God’s heart that cause you to go there in the first place and keep you cool toward Him in the wake of it.”

“The point is honor. The band must play as the titanic sinks.”