January 5, 2009

"We have each of us in the dustiest cells of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present."
- Gene Wolf, "Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of The Book of the New Sun" (p 66)

November 20th, 2007

"So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeem,
So dearly to redeem what hellish hate
So easily destroyed, and still destroys,
In those who, when they may, accept not grace."
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost" (Book III, 298-303)

June 5th, 2007

"The God who is One, beyond numbering and yet mysteriously Three, reconciled us by shouldering our sin in the person of Christ who is one of the Three. That's the mystery of human redemption made possible by the mystery of God's Trinity: The One who was offended bears the burden of the offense. . . . Christ is not a third party inserted between God and humanity to take care of human sin. He is the God who was wronged."
- Miroslav Volf, "Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace" (p 145)