Natural manโs sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
R. C. SproulChange marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
R. C. SproulWe cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
R. C. SproulWe tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We canโt seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We canโt live with it, and we canโt live without it.
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