{"id":577,"date":"2008-07-26T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T01:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/07\/26\/we-dont-get-what-we-deserve\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T01:04:16","slug":"we-dont-get-what-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Get What We Deserve."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a Christian, however, a bottom-line principle can never be that we should get what we deserve.\u00c2\u00a0 Our very existence is God&#8217;s gift.\u00c2\u00a0 Our redemption from the snares of sin is God&#8217;s gift.\u00c2\u00a0 Both are undeserved, and neither could have been deserved.\u00c2\u00a0 From start to finish, we are always given free of charge and given more than our due.\u00c2\u00a0 It is therefore only fitting that we give others more than their due &#8212; give them gifts that satisfy their needs or delight their senses and imagination, and give them the gift of forgiveness that frees them from guilt and the obligation to pay for their misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Miroslav Volf, <em>Free of Charge, <\/em>p. 203-204<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a Christian, however, a bottom-line principle can never be that we should get what we deserve.\u00c2\u00a0 Our very existence is God&#8217;s gift.\u00c2\u00a0 Our redemption from the snares of sin is God&#8217;s gift.\u00c2\u00a0 Both are undeserved, and neither could have been deserved.\u00c2\u00a0 From start to finish, we are always given free of charge and given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-relationships","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}