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Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Collected Meditations
Showing 33 quotesThe Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.— Frederica Mathewes-Green
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.— Frederica Mathewes-Green
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.— Frederica Mathewes-Green
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.— Frederica Mathewes-Green