© Jonathan Whitcomb 2011
“There are things, say in learning to swim or to climb,
which look dangerous and aren’t. Your instructor tells
you it’s safe. You have good reason from past experience
to trust him. Perhaps you can even see for yourself, by
your own reason, that it is safe. But the crucial question
is, will you be able to go on believing this when you
actually see the cliff edge below you or actually feel
yourself unsupported in the water? . . . Here, as in the
New Testament, the conflict is not between faith and
reason but between faith and sight.”
[Referring to George Macdonald] “An almost perfect
relationship with his father was the earthly root of all
his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first
learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the
universe. He was thus prepared in an unusual way
to teach that religion in which the relation of Father
and Son is of all relations the most central.”
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive
ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting
up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“Do not waste time bothering whether you
‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. . . .
you will presently come to love him.”
C. S. Lewis
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Forgiving