“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.” GivingLongDoeDoneHelpingRunningPastSinAnswersHellObjectsCostDifficultyAskingForgivingDoctrineOfferingLong RunsForgivenAlasMiraculousWipeFresh StartCalvaryAsking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?” WorldChurchSinCryObjectsGloryLaughterTriumphRecallsEchoesHelplessRidiculeMillennialsDerisionPhilistines Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.” HeartSoulLightSpiritualSinGraceObjectsWorshipRaisedOperationsFlamesSuitableWorship GodSpiritual Light Book:The Existence and Attributes of God Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.” IfsFirstsMayArtMatterAbleLawPoliticalImaginationSinPoorFictionMoralNovelObjectsAliensControversyScope Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” MeanIdeasWholeFactsFormChristReligiousSinChristianityGraceSubjectsObjectsFollowingTheologyAbstractConceptionDiscipleshipSuperfluousAdherenceForgiveness Of SinsFollowing Christ Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.” WantNeedsGivingFeelsStuffSinSimpleGracePossibilityObjectsMaterialsCapitalismSillyHeroicUrgencyCivicsSilly Stuff Author:Adam Gopnik