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Man Turned In On Himself: Understanding Sin in 21st-Century America QUOTES

Man Turned In On Himself: Understanding Sin in 21st-Century America QUOTES

1 " If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbor’s welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty.”[109] "

― Heather Choate Davis , Man Turned In On Himself: Understanding Sin in 21st-Century America

2 " Vigilance is the proper, constructive concern for the well-being of others and for the advancement of God’s Kingdom.[136]   Anxiety, then, is vigilance that has lost sight of God.[137] "

― Heather Choate Davis , Man Turned In On Himself: Understanding Sin in 21st-Century America

3 " We have noted that anxiety is the disordered state of God-given vigilance. What then are we to make of depression? What God-pleasing good is the flipside of this suffering? “Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”[174] "

― Heather Choate Davis , Man Turned In On Himself: Understanding Sin in 21st-Century America