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Various Christian traditions may argue over orthodox or heterodox ways of understanding this, but there is clear and authoritative testimony based on living the Christian mysteries that if we are going to speak of what a human being is, we have not said enough until we speak of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
he is in Heaven and we are on earth,
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
“A person can receive only what is given them from heaven”
Peter Scazzero • Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation
Divine love is forgiving love. Sorrow must be allowed to blossom into self-forgetful love of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead. Let reason kneel in reverence outside.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Christ was the archetypal perfect man.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
For Augustine, we are made for joy. Joy is another name for the rest we find when we give ourselves over to the One who, for the joy that was set before him, gave himself for us. We find joy when we look for the satisfaction of our hungers in the Triune God who will never leave us or forsake us, when we find our enjoyment in an immortal God whose l
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