April 5th, 2007

"If we make survival the chief goal, we very often can survive, but what do we become in the process? To survive we pay the price of bondage. But if we can settle the issue of survival, we are truly free. Survival wasn't the issue for Jesus. Jesus was willing to die, hence no one could make him do anything that would compromise his integrity or mission."
- Sam Crabtree (www.desiringgod.org) "Survival Isn't Always Important"


"One is a ghost, floating through the world without any real contact. Even when one feels nearest to other people, something in one seems obstinately to belong to God, and to refuse to enter into any earthly communion - at least that is how I should express it if I thought there was a god. It is odd isn't it? I care passionately for this world and many things and people in it, and yet...what is it all? There must be something more important, one feels, though I don't believe there is."
- Bertrand Russell "The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell" (p 121)


"Faith requires no surrender of the intellect. It is not blind, unthinking, and irrational. Nor is it simply a psychological crutch. For me, the objective evidence for God's existence is more convincing than any case I argued as an attorney."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms in Conflict" (p 70)