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"Don't imagine I've been selected to go to Perelandra because I'm anyone in particular. One never can see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was selected for any job. And when one does, it is usually some reason that leaves no room for vanity. Certainly, it is never for what the man himself would have regarded as his chief qualifications." (24)
— Feb 04, 2025 09:11PM
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Jacob Moore
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You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside & an inflexible destiny substituted for it. On the other hand, you might say that he had been delivered from the rhetoric of his passions & had emerged into unassailable freedom.
... Predestination & freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many debates he had heard on this subject.
— Feb 09, 2025 01:08PM
... Predestination & freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many debates he had heard on this subject.
Jacob Moore
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I felt sure that the creature was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed. As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful?
— Feb 02, 2025 08:52PM
