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> [“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets Paul squarely against a temptation as old as religion itself: the temptation to distinguish between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/the-pauline-idea-of-inclusive-election-the-idea-that-the-elect-are/)

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> [“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/the-pauline-idea-of-inclusive-election-the-idea-that-the-elect-are/)

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> [“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/the-only-victory-love-can-enjoy-is-the-day-when-its-offer-of-love-is/)

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> [“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/but-herein-also-lies-an-irony-for-there-is-more-than-one-kind-of/)

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> [“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/even-the-augustinians-i-would-note-seem-prepared-to-acknowledge-this/)

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> [“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of God diverge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/with-such-questions-as-these-we-perhaps-approach-a-critical-parting/)

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> [“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature interprets into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/let-no-one-persuade-you-that-there-is-in-him-a-little-darkness/)

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> [“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition to racial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/here-is-an-example-of-what-i-mean-one-of-my-professors-was-far-more/)

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> [“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/in-his-commentary-on-1-john-however-calvin-saw-more-clearly-than/)

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> [“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed, upon God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/some-will-no-doubt-balk-at-the-idea-that-perfect-justice-in-a/)

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> [“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/now-i-have-no-doubt-that-more-often-than-not-a-moral-drawn-from/)

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> [“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become the Emperor’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/for-insofar-as-fear-of-eternal-damnation-and-the-power-of/)

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> [“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/as-the-augustinians-see-it-god-opposes-sin-enough-to-punish-it-but/)

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> [“The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways, the community…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/the-election-of-one-person-as-paul-understood-it-inevitably-reaches/)

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> [“An answer commonly given is that through suffering Jesus was perfected in his role as savior ; 254 and though that seems right as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/an-answer-commonly-given-is-that-through-suffering-jesus-was/)

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> [“Though such an explicit contradiction is no doubt bewildering, Calvin’s final conclusion—namely, that the author of 1 John “does not speak of the essence \[or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/though-such-an-explicit-contradiction-is-no-doubt-bewildering-calvin/)

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