"If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense." The Problem Of Pain
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creature in order that He may love and perfect them.” The Four Loves
"For He claims all, for He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him.” Weight of Glory
"Christ did not die for men because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because He is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely." Miracles
"Who will separate us from the Love of Christ?
Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written, "For Your sake
we are being put to death all day long;
we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
though Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:35-39
Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written, "For Your sake
we are being put to death all day long;
we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
though Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:35-39
2 comments:
I especially like the last quote from Miracles. It is a comforting thought that He loved me while I was yet a sinner.
C.S. Lewis is interesting, and I would like to read more of his works.
From one of your quotes:
"And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt."
Those Who Christ has transformed and those He hasn't continue to be completely separate. Nothing that the chosen have done have ever made them deserve to be the elect. Think about even someone like Jacob. He did absolutely nothing to merit being able to carry on the covenant, yet he was chosen to carry on the seed. For those who Christ stands in place of, they do not have the anger of God on them, but I have every reason to believe that the ellect do have the anger of God on them.
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