John Piper (1946) American writer
John Piper Twitter stream http://twitter.com/JohnPiper/statuses/5570283801 (2009-11-09).
“He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.”
"A Man of the People", p. 106
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
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