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“Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

“Hans W. Frei argues that the Enlightenment period was liable for a significant portion of the eclipse of the biblical narratives. In place of the biblical narrative as the hermeneutical source and target came “the single meaning of a grammatically and logically sound propositional statement.”125 Grondin insightfully writes, regarding this emphasis on proposition, “For hermeneutics, by contrast, the proposition is something secondary and derivative.”126 The road from university to diversity traded story for proposition, mystery for the exactness of rules, and a deductive slant for one that was largely inductive. Thus, Western biblical hermeneutics followed the Enlightenment-influenced trail that saw hermeneutics as the study of right principles or as the laying out of rules governing the discipline of interpretation.”
― Michael Matthews, A Novel Approach: The Significance of Story in Interpreting and Communicating Reality

“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.”
― Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.”
― Jack Miller