This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.
Purpose, meaning, and hope are the edge of a coin; on one side is imprinted the image of God; and on the other is self _ As complicated as life seems at times, the mystery of fulfillment and the paradox of contentment are as simple as that. What makes life complicated, I suspect, isn__ the choice between these two value systems and the paths they define, sin and holiness, so much as it is our unwillingness to make the choice between the two.
MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
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Purpose, meaning, and hope are the edge of a coin; on one side is imprinted the image of God; and on the other is self _ As complicated as life seems at times, the mystery of fulfillment and the paradox of contentment are as simple as that. What makes life complicated, I suspect, isn__ the choice between these two value systems and the paths they define, sin and holiness, so much as it is our unwillingness to make the choice between the two.
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