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I could have asked him how he got the idea that Candy is my best friend, since I don’t even believe in the notion. All my friends are a blessing, and I would never label one as more important than another.
“The Beatitudes, in particular, are not teachings on how to be blessed. They are not instructions to do anything. They do not indicate conditions that are especially pleasing to God or good for human beings. No one is actually being told that they are better off for being poor, for mourning, for being persecuted, and so on, or that the conditions listed are recommended ways to well-being before God or man. Nor are the Beatitudes indications of who will be on top “after the revolution.” They are explanations and illustrations, drawn from the immediate setting, of the present availability of the kingdom through personal relationship to Jesus. They single out cases that provide proof that, in him, the rule of God from the heavens truly is available in life circumstances that are beyond all human hope.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“The gospel of the kingdom is that no one is beyond beatitude, because the rule of God from the heavens is available to all. Everyone can reach it, and it can reach everyone. We respond appropriately to the Beatitudes of Jesus by living as if this were so, as it concerns others and as it concerns ourselves.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual’s character or of the life that lies endlessly before”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too. We”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“we fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
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