Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read
A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
It conveys itself as simple reality and does so in such a way that it never has to justify itself. The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
Truly such as these, if when called they refuse to undertake offices of supreme rule, for the most part deprive themselves of the very gifts which they received not for themselves alone, but for others also; and, while they meditate their own and not another’s gain, they forfeit the very benefits which they desire to keep to themselves.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
Our slave-soul’s need to work, work, work for absolution must end. Our wandering as lost orphans must come to an end. The only way to see the ending of these things is not in warring against them to defeat them head on, rather it is by turning our attention to the privilege and favor of sonship. Sonship will displace the other broken self-views with such powerful force that they shatter and scatter into the wake behind our new lives moving forward in Christ.
Orphan Slave Son
Ben Pasley
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