“Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.” “Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe! But he’s good. He’s the king, I tell you.” - C.S. Lewis, from The Chronicles of Narnia
“The highest good, than which there is no higher, is God, and consequently He is unchangeable good, hence truly eternal and truly immortal. All other good things are only from Him.” – Augustine of Hippo
“Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.” - Menno Simons
“To love God with heart and soul and mind and strength … is the first and greatest commandment, so the first and greatest sin is not to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength. For this there is no remedy, save what God himself has provided—in love.” – D.A. Carson
“The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.” - Francis Chan
“When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.” – Oswald Chambers
- quotes from The Gospel Project - The God Who Is (Summer 2013)
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