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“Melanchthon concludes that “no sane person can approve this Pharisaical and pagan opinion about ex opere operato.” (Ap.XXIV.13)”
― Jordan B Cooper, American Lutheran Theological Journal Vol. 1. Issue 1.

“If one refuses to receive baptism, it is evidence of unbelief and a rejection of God’s commands.”
― Jordan Cooper, The Great Divide: A Lutheran Evaluation of Reformed Theology

“Do not cry to me. I can only cry with you. I will not die for you. I am still too young in the meaning of love. Talk to the Fool, to the one who left a throne to enter an anthill. He will enter your shadow. It cannot taint HIm. He has done it before. His holiness is not fragile. It burns like a father to the sun. Touch His skin, put your hand in His side. He has kept His scars when He did not have to. Give Him your pain and watch it overwhelmed, burned away in the joy He takes in loving. In stooping.”
― N.D. Wilson

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth