In the final week of His ministry, Jesus confronted the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection of the dead. Their skepticism was challenged by Jesus, who affirmed the resurrection and explained that relationships would transform in the age to come. He emphasized that God is the God of the living, offering hope beyond death.
Thomas à Kempis: TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures…
TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every part must be read in the spirit in which it was written. For in the Scriptures we ought to seek profit rather than polished diction.
John Calvin on God’s Providence and Paternal Care Towards Us
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
...When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die....
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....
