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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
The secret of all life-giving relations with others lies in the fact that the primary “other” for a human being, whether he wants it or not, is always God.
Revolution of Character
Dallas Willard
By ultimately I mean what we love “above all,” that to which we pledge allegiance, that to which we are devoted in a way that overrules other concerns and interests.[18] Our ultimate love is what defines us, what makes us the kind of people we are. In short, it is what we worship.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
It isn’t that, like suicide bombers, people who believe in the resurrection are more cheerful about dying for the cause because they are happy to leave this present world and escape into a glorious future. It is, rather, that people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.
Surprised by Hope
N. T. Wright
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