Commonplace Holiness blog
Power and Goodness
"God’s power is His goodness: hence He cannot use His power otherwise than well. But it is not so with men. Consequently it is not enough for man’s happiness, that he become like God in power, unless he become like Him in goodness also."— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Part 2a, Question 2, Article 4, Reply to Objection 1.
The Whole of Christian Perfection
“What is then the perfection of which man is capable while he dwells in a corruptible body? It is the complying with that kind command, ‘My son, give me thy heart.’ It is he ‘loving the Lord; his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind.’ This is the sum of Christian perfection: It is all comprised in that one word, Love. The first b
Atonement and Communication
“Rather than the traditional view of the atonement which sees it primarily as a transaction between the Father and the Son apart from humanity, from which completed action we then draw benefits, Wesley turns the whole drama into an event of communication in which humanity is the intended recipient of divine love which in Christ comes to expression. This means that the atonement is a
Two Paths
"From long experience and observation I am inclined to think, that whoever finds redemption in the blood of Jesus, whoever is justified, has then the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path. I believe the Holy Spirit at that time sets before him the 'more excellent way,' and incites him to walk therein; to choose the narrowest path in the narrow way; to aspire after the heights an
Not Doing, but Being
A quote from Meister Eckhart, found here.“Do not think to found holiness upon doing; holiness must be founded upon being. Works do not make us holy. It is we who must make works holy. For no matter how holy works may be, they do not make us holy because we do them, but in so far as w
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