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To put it plainly, the life of faith is the pursuit of wisdom.
— Peter Enns
And here's another important dimension of this book. When we accept that biblical invitation, we will see not only how the Bible challenges us to work out what it means to live the life of faith here and now. We will also see—if I may stress the point once again—how the biblical writers themselves were already challenged by the need to move past a rulebook mentality and respond to new circumstances with wisdom.
— Peter Enns
God wants us dead. Or better: God wants us to get used to the need to die, not once, but as a pattern for our lives.
— Peter Enns
Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.
— Peter Enns
Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.
— Peter Enns
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
— Peter Kreeft
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
— Peter Kreeft
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
— Peter Kreeft
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
— Genesis 1:20
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
— Genesis 1:22
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
— Genesis 1:30
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
— Genesis 2:7