This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.
it__ not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn__ what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn__ have to suffer._ Instead, our __orrow and indignation_ should prompt us to act in ways that __ubvert_ that brokenness.
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it__ not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn__ what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn__ have to suffer._ Instead, our __orrow and indignation_ should prompt us to act in ways that __ubvert_ that brokenness.
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Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.
The world is evil only when you become its slave.