"Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. ... The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself."
— A.W. Tozer
Source: The Pursuit of God, ch. 9 "Meekness and Rest"
Tenderness, Self, Rest, Slavery
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"In the creature's knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in, and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; his fulness is received and returned. Here is both an emanation and re-emanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary."
— Jonathan Edwards
Source: The End for Which God Created the World, ch. 2, sect. 7
God's Glory
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"There meet in Jesus Christ, infinite justice and infinite grace. As Christ is a divine person, he is infinitely holy and just, hating sin, and disposed to execute condign punishment for sin. ... And yet he is infinitely gracious and merciful. Though his justice be so strict with respect to all sin, and every breach of the law, yet he has grace sufficient for every sinner, and even the chief of sinners."
— Jonathan Edwards
Source: The Excellency of Christ (sermon)
Cross, Justice, Love
Views: 427
"The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it."
— Augustine
Source: The City of God XIV.11 (tr. Marcus Dods, NPNF I/2)
Freedom, Crime
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"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
— Augustine
Source: Sermons 43
Faith, Understanding
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"What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?"