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I wasn’t trying to pass some Sunday School pop quiz. I was trying to enter into truth that was large enough to hold my own frailty, vulnerability, and weak faith—a truth as deniable as it is definite.
“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 intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.”
― 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
“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
“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
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