If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
Interpretation
Suffering can bring us closer to a greater understanding of God and His greatness.
Timothy Keller suggests that when we acknowledge and treat God as supreme during our times of suffering, we can experience and recognize His greatness in a profound way. This perspective implies that suffering is not merely a hardship to endure but an opportunity for spiritual growth and deeper connection with the divine.
In practice
When speaking about resilience in difficult times at a support group.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.
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