Stay Free: Why Society Can't Survive Without God
Martin Luther was asked what he contributed to his salvation, he replied, “Sin and resistance.” God Himself has done all that He requires of us. May we learn how to rest in Him, because He’s where the joy is!
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
Yet the aim of religious faith is to eliminate spiritual freedom in favor of eternal salvation. Rather than hold open the question of what to do with your time, eternal salvation would close down the question completely. Eternal salvation would not allow for any form of spiritual freedom, since it would remove the question of who you should be and
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
I grew up believing what all modern people are taught: that freedom meant lack of constraint. Orthodoxy taught me that this freedom was no freedom at all, but enslavement to the passions: a neat description of the first thirty years of my life. True freedom, it turns out, is to give up your will and follow God’s. To deny yourself. To let it come. I... See more