#vin

If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God cannot in any sense intend that all shall be saved, as 1 Timothy 4:10 declares. The promise of glory is conditional on grace being received by faith active in love. ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#calvinism #election #god-s-love #jesus #salvation

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens. ↗

— Jennifer Manske Fenske

#life-lessons #living #life

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#freedom #inspirational #living-life #freedom

We live in a culture of violence. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-and-living #violence #life

When we buy junk, we become junk. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity-and-society #junk #life-and-living #life

Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#human-life #success #life

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#living #life

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simple-living #simplicity #life

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead. ↗

— Irene Hunt

#journey #life #pursuit #striving #life

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #serving #life