Such a good book! Here are some excerpts from it.
Freewill is what made evil possible. Why did God give man free will? Because free will is the only thing that makes possibly any love or goodness or joy worth having.
A car is made to run on petrol, and it will not run on anything else. God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because there is no such thing.
Repentance is no fun. It is harder than eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are, the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person-- and he would not need it.
Repentance is not what God demands of us, it is simply a description of what going back to Him is like.
A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but it can to some extent repair itself. In the same way, a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble. pg 61
God will not love us because we are good, but God will make us good because He loves us. pg 61
Why is God not invading the world and defeating the devil NOW? Why is He delaying? Because He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. When the time comes, it will not be the time for choosing: It will be the time we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, it is our chance to choose the right side.
^ I really want my friends to know this.
We have desires because satisfaction for those desires exist. I feel hungry, and there is such a thing as food. A duck wants to swim, and there is water. If I find in myself a desire which no experience on earth can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world.
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