We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
We are made to know and love God.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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