Confronting the sinner about a sin is an act of love. It is akin to a doctor telling a patient about a cancer diagnosis. The news is bad but necessary for opening the doorway to healing. Similarly, addressing sin opens the doorway to repentance and restoration.
J.I. Packer — Communion between God and man
Communion between God and man is the end to which both creation and redemption are the means; it is the goal to which both theology and preaching must ever point; it is the essence of true religion; it is, indeed, the definition of Christianity.
Albert Einstein on God’s existence
We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues...The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend...That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.
Blaise Pascal – “Unless we love the truth, we cannot know it”
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it
What Happens When We Die? More on the Afterlife from Lazarus and the Rich Man.
Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the rich man encourages an eternal perspective with respect towards wealth and poverty.