Jacques Saurin, French Reformed pastor, examines some maxims, like charity begins at home. Have your revenge; basic decency all required, just don’t murder. These rules oppose the religion of Jesus Christ.
Would many Reformed people be petulant to condemn these?
How can you practice charity, forgiveness, and spiritual humility?
David Chytraeus, Lutheran theologian, says life makes a body move just as faith makes a heart love. (Yet faith is whereby we’re translated form death to life).
How can people spend all their energy against things most others would call “loving”, and still want credit for showing “life” in this spirt and body.
How can you be more loving in word and deed to your neighbor, EVEN to those YOUR tribe has deemed unworthy of love?
"If unity is impossible to the writer, who is a sea of spiritual protoplasm, capable of flowing in all directions, of engulfing every object in its path, of trickling in every crevice, of filling every hole, at least truth is possible in the confession of our insincerities. But at times, what my mind engenders fictionally I enrich with true feeling and I am taken in, in good faith, by my own inventions.
Henry said I had broken him down with my talk of 'destinée intérieure', as if I were working on him the emotional cycle of analysis: confidence, understanding, love, strength, independence. My talk about sincerity, the joys of repose in complete confidence, the human relief of depending on another; all this upset him, hit the mark. I talked emotionally about the flow of confidence developed in analysis such as one cannot have even with the loved one. How the analysis taps hidden and secret sources. How the aim of analysis resembles the old Chinese definition of wisdom: wisdom being the destruction of idealism. The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others—an admirable image. When this is broken down by the analyst's discoveries, it is a relief because this image is always a great strain to live up to. Some consider the loss of it a cause for suicide."
-- The Diary of AnThe Diary of Anaïs Ninaïs Nin, vol. 1
#currentreading #leydelobos de #leighbardugo .
Hace casi un año que empecé esta saga y parece que la cosa se va acabando. Terminar una saga siempre da pena y aunque es cierto que no le he pillado el punto del todo al #grishaverse , son unos libros entretenidos y con un worldbuilding muy completo.
A ver que tal el final 
@bookstodon what is everybody #currentreading? I am working through Ninth House - I am not a huge #fantasy reader but LOVE #darkacademia and am enjoying this one!
Una vez terminada la revisión de #Creadordepactos puedo seguir con mi lectura actual.
Ahora mismo voy por el sexto libro del #grishaverse y la verdad es que llevo más de la mitad y me está gustando bastante, sobretodo porque estoy in love con Nikolai 
Current reading: Reino de ladrones de Leigh Bardugo.
Si bien la trilogía de Sombra y Hueso no me gustó, la biología de Seis de Cuervos me ha enganchado. A ver como termina este...
