God Tested Abraham. Temptation Is Not Meant

To Repent Means To Realize That The Kind Of Life We Are Living Is Wrong And That We Must Adopt A Completely New Set Of Values. To That End, It Involves Two Things. It Involves Sorrow For What We Have Been And It Involves The Resolve That By The Grace Of God We Will Be Changed.

When We Love Anyone With Our Whole Hearts, Life Begins When We Are With That Person; It Is Only In Their Company That We Are Really And Truly Alive.

God Does Not Choose A Person For Ease And Comfort And Selfish Joy But For A Task That Will Take All That Head And Heart And Hand Can Bring To It. God Chooses A Man In Order To Use Him.

It May Well Be A Sign Of The Decadence Of The Church And The Failure Of Christianity That Gifts Have To Be Coaxed Out Of People, And That Often They Will Not Give At All Unless They Get Something For Their Money In The Way Of Entertainment Or Of Goods. Giving Which Is Real Giving Has A Certain Recklessness In It.

Certainly Christianity Is An Experience, But Equally Clearly The Validity Of Ane Experience Has To Be Tested. There Are People In Lunatic Asylums Who Have The Experience Of Being The Emperor Napoleon Or A Poached Egg. It Is Unquestionably An Experience, And To Them A Real Experience, But For All That It Has No Kind Of Universal Validity. It Is Necessary To Go Far Beyond Simply Saying That Something Comes From Experience. Before Any Such Thing Can Be Evaluated At All, The Source And Character Of The Experience Must Clearly Be Investigated.