Terryl L. Givens Quotes

• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Mentir, Creer, Corazón

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.

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  Believe, Reflection, Choices

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• God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

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  Loss, Omnipotence, Joy

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• A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

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  Fashion, Stars, Eye

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• Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Existence, Core

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• The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Believe, Self, Knowing

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• Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Blessed, Heaven, Clubs

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• What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

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  Decisions We Make, Choices, Stakes

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Reflection, Who We Are, Embrace

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• Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.

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  Meaningful, Appreciate, Miracle

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• Los textos religiosos más antiguos de Occidente atribuyen a la humanidad tanto una prehistoria como un destino entre los dioses. M. David Litwa presenta un sorprendente estudio de las variedades que ha tenido esta última creencia, tanto dentro como fuera de la tradición cristiana. Becoming Divine reconstruye un mosaico accesible y fascinante de esta idea demasiado tiempo olvidada, utilizando figuras tan dispares como los cultistas órficos, Agustín y Nietzsche.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Christian, Religious, Destiny

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