Jesus gained the power to love harlots, bullies, and ruffians… he was able to do this only because he saw through the filth and crust of degeneration, because his eye caught the divine original which is hidden in every way–in every man!… Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self. Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
- Helmut Thielicke
Love Through The Layer of Mud
June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Mysteries of the Divine Truth
June 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of the divine Truth are hidden in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear; and, though beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendors of transcendent beauty. And we behold that darkness beyond being, concealed under all natural light.
- Dionysius the Aeopagite
Why Do You Serve God?
June 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Why do you serve God? Is it because you approve of His moral character, or is it because He is God and you are not?
- Dr. Richard Smith
