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“Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. We’re still helping each other.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“I remember preaching on Jesus’s call to the practice of radical forgiveness and being challenged by a church member who said, “Yeah, but the Bible says, ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’ ” I had to explain to him that a Christian can’t cite Moses to silence Jesus. When we try to embrace Biblicism by placing all authority in a flat reading of Scripture and giving the Old Testament equal authority with Christ, God thunders from heaven, “No! This is my beloved Son! Listen to him!”
― Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
― Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
“What sinners need (shall we say deserve?) is love and healing, not torture and death. We are worthy of God’s love and healing not on the basis of personal merit but because of the image we bear: the very image of God. Original blessing is more original than original sin!”
― Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
― Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
“Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
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