If I strongly desire to think or do or be something, I will automatically, unconsciously, and with increasing seeming sophistication over time, make that thing wise and virtuous. If I dislike someone for whatever reason, I will in the same ways, make something annoying about them: foolish, inappropriate, and/or nefarious. This is why God had to take issues of wisdom and morality out of our hands and replace them with the possibility of devotion to a Person, namely, His Son.
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If it wasn’t for family, we would all have seemingly significant relationships only with the people we choose out of mutual comfort.
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If my love is mere feeling, impulse, or sentiment, then at the most critical moments of my soul’s life, my love will be trumped by my defensiveness.
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If nature teaches anything, it teaches that God prefers diversity over equity.
