Quotables
"Don't you see? What I want is to believe in someone completely and then do what he wants me to do. If God were to tell me: Kate, here is what I want you to do; you get off this train right now and go over there to that corner by the Southern Life and Accident Insurance Company and stand there for the rest of your life and speak kindly to people - you think I would not do it? You think I would not be the happiest girl in Jackson, Mississippi? I would."
- Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer"
The most liberating discovery is that since God has filled us with His own life, our love can be like a tube open at both ends, with God's love coming in one end and out the other, in by faith and out by works. The alternative is to be a tube open only at one end, the neighbor's end. Then we try to squeeze our own spiritual toothpaste out of the tube. But we only have a finite amount of toothpaste to give. So we worry about squandering it, just as the older brother in the the parable of the prodigal son did. But God's supply is infinite. That's why the saints love so recklessly. It's not their love they love with, but God's.
- Peter Kreeft,
The God Who Loves You
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