The (Christian) doctrines are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
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Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us<br/>into unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in the<br/>hand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God: <br/>Judas and Satan as tools or instruments, John and Peter as sons.
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Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? <br/>For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god<br/>of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end<br/>and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?
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When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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