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If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.

That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
From What We Talk about When We Talk about God
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.

That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
From What We Talk about When We Talk about God
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.

That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
From What We Talk about When We Talk about God
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
From Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived