There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reactions (although miraculous) are only described in sparse, minimalist terms.
God seems much more amused by Jonah than Jonah is with God. Every miracle is directed at Jonah. Yet, very little copy is used to described God's miracles. Although God's miracles are much more astonishing than Jonah's immature fits of rebellion, more copy is dedicated to Jonah.
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Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
Bill HybelsTags: christianity grace forgiveness christian religions
Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
Rae CarsonTags: peace war forgiveness killing
A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?
John MiltonTags: humility forgiveness gratitude
He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
John GreenTags: forgiveness
Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline!
Wes AdamsonTags: revenge forgiveness
We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.
Rob BuyeaTags: inspirational forgiveness teaching
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.
Michelle Cruz-RosadoTags: compassion self-acceptance forgiveness awareness forgiveness-quotes
If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: kindness world humanity forgiveness peaceful
This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity." It is one of the most pernicious of doctrines, and one of the most fruitful sources of immorality. It has been the chief cause of making Christian nations the most immoral of nations. In teaching this doctrine Christ committed a sin for which his death did not atone, and which can never be forgiven. There is no forgiveness of sin. Every cause has its effect; every sinner must suffer the consequences of his sins.
John E. RemsburgTags: death dogma forgiveness suffer creed consequences new-testament doctrine cause-and-effect forgiven iniquity pernicious biblical-criticism
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