Not Distant, Not Indifferent

“If you think God is far away and indifferent, here is the surprising revelation. From the foundation of the world, God knew your sufferings and declared that he himself would take human form and participate in them (which means that we too could share in his). This is not a distant, indifferent God.”
  
  — Edward T. Welch, Depression: A Stubborn Darkness Winston-Salem, NC: Punch Press, 2004), 48

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