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Wonderful!

"Private prayer [is] the measure of who we are spiritually" (p. 102).

Really good!

"For Christ belongs to the humble-minded, not to those who exalt themselves above His flock" (16:1).

"Let us run toward the goal of peace" (19:2).

Rousseau is the foundation of individual expressivism, leading to the idea that we must be true to ourselves, and any structure that seeks to limit our authentic expression is repressive and harmful.

This book just gets better and better.

"The gospel does not make us like Adam in his innocence--it makes us like Christ, in all the perfection of his reflection of God" (p. 16).

"The gospel enables us to embrace those moments [when we realize what we're truly like] without being crushed. The gospel fuels humility first by exposing our sins, but then by covering them" (pp. 24-25).