No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond. — René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
“Nothing. You began as nothing and you will end as nothing. And in between—everything, and nothing. In between—joy and sorrow, beauty and decay. Everything yours to partake of yours to bear. Yours to see, to know, to give birth to—and to let go. None of it yours to have.
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We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
A. W. Tozer • The Pursuit of God : (Annotated and illustrated)
Reinhold Niebuhr defined sin as a human tendency towards self-importance, failure, and moral corruption. He believed that sin occurs when people try to find security outside of the relationship between time and eternity, and when they refuse to acknowledge their limitations as creatures. Niebuhr believed that people sin by pretending to be more tha... See more