Quote preview background for John Eldredge
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
John Eldredge Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face
Turn into a Quote Card

Quote Detail

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
JE
John Eldredge

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

Quick Answer

What this quote page tells you

This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.

Related Quotes

More quote cards from the same area

"

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

"

If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a "secret good" is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the "solution" becomes more problematic still. For it is certainly not clear how God could hate what he himself wills and sees as a contributing ingredient in the good of the whole. If all things play themselves out according to a divine plan, how can God genuinely hate anything?

GB
Gregory A. Boyd

God at War: The Bible Spiritual Conflict