Topic : Balance

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, and love without weakness.

Jim Elliot, quoted in The Berean Call, Bend, Oregon, March 1997

Once the Devil was walking along with one of his cohorts. They saw a man ahead of them pick up something shiny. “What did he find?” asked the cohort. “A piece of the truth,” the Devil replied. “Doesn’t it bother you that he found a piece of the truth?” asked the cohort. “No,” said the Devil, “I will see to it that he makes a religion out of it.”

Between Two Truths - Living with Biblical Tensions, Klyne Snodgrass, 1990, Zondervan Publishing House, Page 35

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

G. K. Chesterton

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