Jason Throckmorton
@throck
Jason Throckmorton
@throck
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
“The will of God is not a ‘fate’ to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act.”5
I’m not the sage on the stage. I’m the guide on the side.
There are the things we fear that we should, and the things that we should fear but don’t.
Most people fear dying. Most people don’t fear, don’t care, that they are living a kind of death.
Agrippinus, one of the great Stoics of Nero’s time, refused to compromise his belief or to keep a low profile even though it put him in danger of running afoul of
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