"For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God."

-- David Bentley Hart

#Evil Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.”
“The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.”
“Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”
“One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.”
“The innocent is the person who explains nothing”
“It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - Godâ€™s mission.”

Source : Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.62, InterVarsity Press
“I became a villain for doing the right thing,”

Source : "Hayward Defends Tenure, BP Spill Response". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2010.
“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

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