On All Things Working Together for Good…
God doesn’t plan the horrors. They happen. But God can come into them. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Live Coal in the Sea
Which One Wins?
This is an old story, but I love it. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, […]
More on the Right Use of Pity
Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. … … The passion of Pity … the ache that draws men to concede […]
It’s Okay to Say No
The inability to say no to the bad is pervasive. Not only does it keep us from refusing evil in our lives, it often keeps us from recognizing evil. — Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, in Boundaries
On Good from Evil
Now the fact that God can make complex good out of simple evil does not excuse … those who do the simple evil. … Offenses must come, but woe to those by whom they come; sins do cause grace to abound, but we must not make that an excuse for continuing to sin. — C.S. […]
Evil Can Deceive Us
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil