Grant me never to lose sight of
the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
the exceeding righteousness of salvation,
the exceeding glory of Christ,
the exceeding beauty of holiness,
the exceeding wonder of grace.
#valleyofvision
If you empty the world of purpose, make it one of brute fact alone, you empty it (for many people, at any rate ) of reason for gratitude, and a sense of gratitude is necessary for both happiness and decency. For what can soon, and all too easily, replace gratitude is a sense of entitlement. Without gratitude it is hard to appreciate, or be satisfied with what you have: and life will become an existential shopping spree that no product satisfies.
- Theodore Dalrymple, Not with a Bang but a Whimper, p.259
"The text which has been taken as a kind of motto-text of the Presbyterian churches is well chosen, with the emblem of the burning bush and the words of Exodus 3:2 about the bush which Moses saw: ‘𝘕𝘦𝘤 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳’ – ‘Yet it was not consumed.’ This has been the story not only of the church but also of the Bible. It has been forbidden, it has been burned – sometimes literally but it has never been consumed." —David J. Randall, 'A Sad Departure'
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