“The gospel gives you psychological freedom to handle the wrong things that you will do. You won’t have to deny, spin, or repress the truth about yourself. These things don’t make it impossible to know who you are. Only with the support of hearing Jesus say, ‘You are capable of terrible things, but I am absolutely, unconditionally committed to you,’ will you be able to be honest with yourself.”
- Tim Keller, Journal of Biblical Counseling, (Winter 2007)
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“The essence of the Christian religion consists in this, that the creation of the Father, devastated by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God, and recreated by the Holy Spirit into the kingdom of God.”
- Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol 1
Both of these quotes were cited recently on a blog I enjoy called Of First Importance.
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