Roger Bissell Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Inspired by Nathaniel Branden's distinction between motivation from love of life vs. motivation from fear of death, I came up with this paraphrasing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's famous quote ("Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will"):Being truly alive is less about cautiously, worriedly avoiding death than about courageously and actively being the best person you can be.REB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 "If you live you burn"?--Brant"God's will": sinning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Inspired by Nathaniel Branden's distinction between motivation from love of life vs. motivation from fear of death, I came up with this paraphrasing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's famous quote ("Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will"):Being truly alive is less about cautiously, worriedly avoiding death than about courageously and actively being the best person you can be.It's sound logic to substitute "death" for "sin" as they are similar in many ways. In a like manner, loving life is also similar to loving good (God).Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zantonavitch Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Live as much as you can, as long as you can. Life is glorious -- while it lasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Trying to estimate the inestimable, of the astronomical odds against being alive in the first place... I have no trouble perceiving life itself, but more: self-aware life; and my own in particular, as a gift of the Universe. We are a long time non-existent - but happily, enough time alive. It is vanity, as some writer said once, to expect anything more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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