We ought diligently to ponder on the paternal goodness of God toward the human race…as often as we call God the Creator of heaven and earth, let us remember that the distribution of all the things which he created are in his hand and power…that thus allured by his great goodness and beneficence, we may study with our whole heart to love and serve him.
Athanasius: The Wisdom of God Handles the Universe Like A Lyre
For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as a lyre, and adjusting things in the air to things on the earth, and things in the heaven to things in the air, and combining parts into wholes and moving them all by His beck and will, produces well and fittingly, as the result, the unity of the universe and of its order, Himself remaining unmoved with the Father while He moves all things by His organising action, as seems good for each to His own Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
...When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die....
The Rightful King Has Arrived: Contrasting the Triumphal Entry and the Lamentation of Jerusalem in Luke 19:28-47
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!”
C.S. Lewis: God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain.
...God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....
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