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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .

A marriage is not a joining of two worlds, but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.

The Mystery of Marriage 20th Anniversary Edition

Mike Mason

The most constant “whim,” historically, has been the disastrous idea just mentioned: that Jesus is here giving laws. For if that is all he is doing, they will certainly be laws that are impossible to keep. The keeping of law turns out to be an inherently self-refuting aim; rather, the inner self must be changed. Trying merely to keep the law is not wholly unlike trying to make an apple tree bear peaches by tying peaches to its branches.

The Divine Conspiracy

Dallas Willard

God pursues Nazis and whores, but his people often refuse to go with him.

The Pursuing God

Joshua Ryan Butler

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