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By age ten, I’d already read hundreds, if not thousands, of books. But that was the first time a book provoked a visceral, gut-wrenching, puddle-of-tears reaction. Before that day, I didn’t know a book could do that to a person. I didn’t
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“Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promises of God, as when the Anglican burial service inters the corpse 'in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.”
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“If we claim to be Christian, we must be like Christ.”
― The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling
― The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling
“Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
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