Sam Keithley

le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

‘So if he can be found when he is sought, why does it say seek his face always? Does he perhaps have to be sought even when he has been found? That is indeed how incomprehensible things have to be searched for…’

-Augustine, De Trin, Book XV

[David Hines @hradzka]

we got more St. Augustine before THE WINDS OF WINTER

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

@Dexerto Bring us the girl and wipe away your debt

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

Dan Treier's vocation in evangelical theology began at the turn of the century when there weren't enough models available of how to do it right. No disrespect toward older theologians! But I was in Dan's exact age cohort, and the way forward was not obvious to us. Dan found it.

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

‘Let us pray, therefore, that we be delivered from testing, not so that we should not be tested (for this is impossible, in particular for those who are on earth), but so that we should not be overcome when we are tested.’ - Origen, On Prayer

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‘We say this not wishing that God should be made holy by our prayers, but asking the Lord that his name should be hallowed in us.’ Cyprian, On the Lord’s Prayer

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‘When God’s Word is heard and proclaimed, something takes place that for all our hermeneutical skill cannot be brought about by hermeneutical skill.’ - Barth, CD I.I

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

'The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor,
The wicked does not understand such concern.' Pr 29:7

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

The interanimation of words

[Fellipe do Vale @FellipeDoVale1]

“Just as the Holy Trinity made all things from nothing, so the Holy Trinity shall make all well that is not well.”

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (ST, 16)

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

...and if, when such doubts have once been raised, we are denied any biblical recourse in quieting them, then we are doomed to think the Scriptures inconclusive for any question that is worth stopping to doubt about in the first place.' - O'Donovan, Resurrection and Moral Order

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'For it requires only very limited talents at scepticism to raise doubts about the application of any biblical teaching, however plain, to any situation whatever...

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Here on my occasional posts to remind you all that ‘Courtesy Greetings’ by Into it. Over it. is an excellent song.

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

Father’s day, like many other celebration holidays, seems ironic to me. Being a father is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.

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My oldest likes to pray in Home Depot 🤷‍♂️

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

I have a soft spot for jazz organ

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

‘I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him.
That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.’

[Sam Keithley @theclassicsamk]

Telling a friend about exploring disability & theo:

‘I think the project has to explore the confession that I worship the Lord that can help Bartimaeus to see but not my wife.’

‘My wife was asking the Lord the same thing about me being an asshole.’

He’s onto something, I think

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@AgnesCallard Blue Valentine

[Beth Felker Jones @bethfelkerjones]

All theology is contextual, but it isn't theology if it's just context, all the way down.

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@HempsteadHannah @TomTopel Lolol. Can’t escape.