True Spirituality

There is also very much the demand that in practice we are to die daily

The Christian negative is not a nihilist negative—there is a true biblical negative—but the Christian life does not stop with a negative. There is a true life in the present as well as in the future.

There is a biblical negative and then a positive.

true spirituality, the Christian life

The beginning of man’s rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

Here I am told that if I am a true Christian, “all things” work together for my good

I am to love God enough to be contented; second, I am to love men enough not to envy.

desire becomes sin when it fails to include love of God or men

When we talk of the Christian life or true spirituality, when we talk about freedom from the bonds of sin, we must be wrestling with the inward problems of not coveting against God and men, of loving God and men, and not merely some set of externals.

can take lists that men make and I can seem to keep them, but to do that, my heart does not have to be bowed