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.
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.
H. Richard Niebuhr – on theological liberalism being naïvely optimistic.
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
C.S. Lewis – “All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who know it is opened.”
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