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“I am going to him whom my soul hath loved, or rather who hath loved me with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of all my consolation. . . . I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm, but whilst the great Pilot is in it the loss of a poor under-rower will be inconsiderable. Live and pray and hope and wait patiently and do not despair; the promise stands invincible that he will never leave thee nor forsake thee. JOHN OWEN, LETTER TO CHARLES FLEETWOOD, AUGUST 22, 1683”
― Owen on the Christian Life: Living for the Glory of God in Christ
― Owen on the Christian Life: Living for the Glory of God in Christ
“What good news it is, then, that the gospel depends on a God who does not depend on us.”
― None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God
― None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God
“The thelologian bound by the pride of paralysis may mask his cognitive inactivity with humility, but he refuses to employ the gifts God has given to him in service of
the church. He thinks humility is antithetical to magnanimity, but such an assumption plays by the rules of Aristotle not Aquinas. “G.K. Chesterton compares
Aristotle’s magnanimous man ‘who is great and knows that he is great� with
Aquinas’s view of the ‘miracle of the more magnanimous man, who is great and
knows that he is small.� � The theologian who façades his faintheartedness with
humility is just as contemptuous. In the words of Thomas, “A man clings too
much to his own opinion whereby he thinks himself incompetent for those things for which he is competent" (ST II-II 133)”
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the church. He thinks humility is antithetical to magnanimity, but such an assumption plays by the rules of Aristotle not Aquinas. “G.K. Chesterton compares
Aristotle’s magnanimous man ‘who is great and knows that he is great� with
Aquinas’s view of the ‘miracle of the more magnanimous man, who is great and
knows that he is small.� � The theologian who façades his faintheartedness with
humility is just as contemptuous. In the words of Thomas, “A man clings too
much to his own opinion whereby he thinks himself incompetent for those things for which he is competent" (ST II-II 133)”
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