“Shalom is what love looks like in the flesh. The embodiment of love in the context of a broken creation, shalom is a hint at what was, what should be, and what will one day be again. Where sin disintegrates and isolates, shalom brings together and restores. Where fear and shame throw up walls and put on masks, shalom breaks down barriers and frees us from the pretense of our false selves.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“Sin more! Otherwise Jesus died for nothing.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“If there is an original sin, then music must be my primordial salvation.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“If God said, “I forgive you,” to a man who hated his brother, and if (as is impossible) that voice of forgiveness should reach the man, what would it mean to him? How would the man interpret it? Would it not mean to him, “You may go on hating. I do not mind it. You have had great provocation, and are justified in your hate”? No doubt God takes what wrong there is, and what provocation there is, into the account; but the more provocation, the more excuse that can be urged for the hate, the more reason, if possible, that the hater should be delivered from the hell of his hate, that God’s child should be made the loving child that He meant him to be. The man would think, not that God loved the sinner, but that He forgave the sin, which God never does. Every sin meets its due fate—inexorable expulsion from the paradise of God’s Humanity.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“[A believer] is oftentimes at the very brink, at the very door of some folly or iniquity, when God puts in by the efficacy of actually assisting grace, and recovers them to an obediential frame of heart again. And this is a peculiar work of Christ, wherein he manifests and exerts his faithfulness toward his own: 'He is able to succor them that are tempted' (Heb. 2:18)....Here lies a great part of the care and faithfulness of Christ toward his poor saints.”
Source: Overcoming Sin and Temptation
“I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.”
Source: Transmissions From Dating Land
“Ubatizo ni toba iletayo ondoleo la dhambi. Mwangushe Goliati wa uzinzi katika maisha yako kwa kumtumia Yesu Kristo, ambaye ni Daudi wa mapandikizi yote ya dhambi katika maisha yetu.”
“Nothing can marry two people closer than a mutual sin in the world's eyes.”
Source: Honor
“Farklı hisseden, farklı hassasiyetlere sahip ve farkındalığı güçlenmiş başka bir insan haline geldiğimi biliyorum. Daha iyi bir insan olduğumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir insan olduğumu biliyorum, çünkü o buz gibi donuk hayatım için yeni bir anlam buldum, yaşamın kendisinden başka bir sözcükle açıklayamayacağım bir anlam. Ait olduğum kesimin normlarını ve kalıplarını boş bulduğum için artık ne kendimden ne de başkalarından utanıyorum. Onur, suç, günah gibi kavramlar bir anda soğuk, metalsi bir tını kazandı, bunları dehşete kapılmadan telaffuz edemiyorum artık.”
Source: Olağanüstü Bir Gece
“Left to my own devices, it won’t take long before my conscience will be overrun by my greed. And if my devices are that faulty, I need to turn to a God who is not.”