“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”
Source: The Mistress of Spices
“How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?”
As quoted in Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (1998) by Johann Christoph Arnold, p. 155
Context: Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
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