God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
C. S. Lewis
“We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie.
His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve,
is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment.
However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment.
Sin doesn’t make life interesting; it makes life empty.
Sin doesn’t create adventure; it blunts it.
Sin doesn’t expand life; it shrinks it.
Sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom.
When there’s fulfillment when there’s beauty when we see God as he truly is –
an endless reservoir of fascination –
boredom becomes impossible.”
Randy Alcorn
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin,
but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Thomas Merton
“The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin
will be lifted when Christ returns.”
Tim LaHaye