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“Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“Wisdom tells me I’m nothing. But love tells me I’m everything.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“The sight of Ethan - of Scam, since this was a mission - sent a trickle of annoyance down Crash's spine. Not like all the little itches of tech, just the ever-present need to punch him in the face.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

“The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes

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“I see you.

Because in you,
I see me.”
― Lisa Schroeder, quote from The Day Before

“The astronomical conjunction I was referring to earlier was the sign in the heavens that led the three wise men from the east." He let his words sink in, waiting for her brain to put it together. "But how could the wise men be following their 'star' so many years before the birth of Christ?" Isaac chuckled. "The answer concerns Augustus' intention to restart history," he said enigmatically. "You've got some catching up to do, my friend. But that's a story for another day. I didn't mean to distract you from your work.”
― Kenneth Atchity, quote from The Messiah Matrix

“What is the ultimate good in the good news? It all ends in one thing: God himself. All the words of the gospel lead to him, or they are not gospel.

Salvation is not good news if it only saves from hell and not for God.

Forgiveness is not good news if it only gives relief from guilt and doesn't open the way to God.

Justification is not good news if it only makes us legally acceptable to God but doesn't bring fellowship with God.

Redemption is not good news if it only liberates us from bondage but doesn't bring us to God.

Adoption is not good news if it only puts us in the Father's family but not in his arms.

This is crucial. Many people seem to embrace the good news without embracing God. There is no sure evidence that we have a new heart just because we want to escape hell. That's a perfectly natural desire, not a supernatural one.

It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things.

The devils want them.

It is not wrong to want them. Indeed it is folly not to.

But the evidence that we have been changed is that we want these things because they bring us to the enjoyment of God. This is the greatest thing Christ died for. "Christ also suffered once for sin, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God”
― John Piper, quote from The Passion of Jesus Christ

“If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.”
― Miroslav Volf, quote from Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

“There's no paradise in love! It's--you're thinking in the wrong way. Love--the sort you're asking me for--is of the earth, earthy. Beautiful, maybe--sometimes it be like a gold mine that one digs into. But of the earth--earthy. Tis all wrong to speak of paradise. Love may be the nearest human beings can get--but it is still outside the gates--for it is human--easily lost--animal in the way it work, though more, much more than animal. Oftentimes it--uplifts, transports...but--but it should not be mistaken. It is a--a terrible mistake to pretend it is something quite different.”
― Winston Graham, quote from The Four Swans

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