"...we cannot return benefits to God. God already has everything. God enjoys unsurpassable plentitude and lacks nothing that a gift from humans would satisfy. If we cannot return anything to God, does this mean that God cannot receive anything from us? Scripture tells us that God can and wants to receive. But rather than receiving something God needs by doesn't have, what God receives is delight - the lover's delight at the sight of the beloveds whose very existence is that lover's gift.What God also receives is pain - the lover's pain when love has been betrayed."
(Miroslav Volf, "Free of Charge - Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace," p42.)
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Wow ! Neat quote ! I think I'll use it on facebook ;)
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