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Emmanuel Roldan

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Don't pray for the rain to stop. Pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. -Wendell Berry

 Waco, TX
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Joined November 2010
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It is only through being loved that we become capable of loving, and only in loving is there true freedom. To be apprehended by the love of God and to be truly free are one and the same thing. -Emil Brunner
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God is holy because His grace judges and His judgment is gracious. Karl Barth, CD II.1:363
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God became a human being so that in one person you could have both something to see and something to believe. Augustine, Sermon 126
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So dark is our situation that God himself must enter and occupy it in order that it may be light. We cannot fully understand the Christian "God with us" without the greatest astonishment at the glory of the divine grace and the greatest horror at our own plight. Karl Barth
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The end is not an event but a person. -G.B. Caird
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We are to face the unknown New Year unafraid, because God lives and loves and reigns. George W. Truett
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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you. Augustine
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Our walk with Christ, well learned, is a burden only as wings are to a bird or the engines are to an airplane. #DallasWillard #KingdomLiving #RenovationOfTheHeart
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For the seminarian who likes the word "prophetic" just a little too much... "The prophet is not allowed the luxury of perpetual subversion. After Ahab, Elijah must anoint some Hazael, some Jehu.” - Oliver O'Donovan
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I didn’t have to hate myself, or my people, or our creativity, or our beauty to be human or to be Christian. Danté Stewart
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Kierkegaard
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Near and hard to grasp Is the God. But where danger is Deliverance also grows. Friedrich Hölderlin
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God forgets nothing that he has created. Nothing is lost to him. He will restore it all. Jürgen Moltmann
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...those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. C.S. Lewis
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The assistance of divine grace cannot be made a substitute for our human responsibilities. Diogenes Allen
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What is decisive is not the size of the city, but the fact that it rests on the mountain. There it becomes the light of the entire world. -Gerhard Lohfink (on Matthew 5:14-16)
The deeper the experience of God’s mercy, the more compassion we will have for others Thomas Keating
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But these men are your brothers, your lost younger brothers, and if the word "integration" means anything, this is what it means, that we with love shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. James Baldwin
And when human hearts are breaking under sorrow's iron rod, then we find that self-same aching deep within the heart of God. T. Rees
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It is only the person who lives slowly who really experiences something of life... It is only if we eat slowly that we enjoy what we eat... we do not have to run after every possibility. One reality is of more value than a thousand possibilities. -Jürgen Moltmann
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