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July 22, 2008
"When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me
into glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I
desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."
- Psalms 73:21-26 (NIV)
"And all the time the joke is that the word 'Mine' in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say 'Mine' of each thing that exists and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong - certainly not to them, whatever happens."
- C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" (p 114-115)
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me
into glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I
desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."
- Psalms 73:21-26 (NIV)
"And all the time the joke is that the word 'Mine' in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say 'Mine' of each thing that exists and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong - certainly not to them, whatever happens."
- C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" (p 114-115)
May 5, 2008
"Where does wisdom come from?
Where does understanding dwell?
It is hidden from the eyes of
every living thing, concealed
even from the birds of the air.
Destruction and Death say,
'Only a rumor of it has reached
our ears.'
God understands the way to it
and he alone knows where
it dwells, for he views the
ends of the earth and sees
everything under the heavens.
When he established the force
of the wind and measured
out the waters, when he made
a decree for the rain and a
path for the thunderstorm, then
he looked at wisdom and
appraised it; he confirmed it
and tested it.
And he said to man,
'The fear of the Lord - that
is wisdom, and to shun
evil is understanding.' "
- Job 28: 20-28 (NIV)
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" (p 14)
Where does understanding dwell?
It is hidden from the eyes of
every living thing, concealed
even from the birds of the air.
Destruction and Death say,
'Only a rumor of it has reached
our ears.'
God understands the way to it
and he alone knows where
it dwells, for he views the
ends of the earth and sees
everything under the heavens.
When he established the force
of the wind and measured
out the waters, when he made
a decree for the rain and a
path for the thunderstorm, then
he looked at wisdom and
appraised it; he confirmed it
and tested it.
And he said to man,
'The fear of the Lord - that
is wisdom, and to shun
evil is understanding.' "
- Job 28: 20-28 (NIV)
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" (p 14)
April 16, 2008
"Childhood scenes rushed back at me out of the night, strongly close and urgent. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do."
- Corrie ten Boom, "The Hiding Place" (p 15)
- Corrie ten Boom, "The Hiding Place" (p 15)
April 14, 2008
"No sin against God can be little, because it is against the great God of heaven and earth; but if the sinner can find a little God, it may be easy to find out little sin."
- John Bunyan
- John Bunyan
March 24th, 2008
"First we had to be persuaded how much God loved us, in case out of sheer despair we lacked the courage to reach up to him. Also we had to be shown what sort of people we are that he loves, in case we should take pride in our own worth, and so bounce even further away from him and sink even more under our own strength. So he dealt with us in such a way that we could progress rather in his strength...
So we needed to be persuaded how much God loves us, and what sort of people he loves; how much in case we despaired, what sort in case we grew proud."
- Augustine, "On the Trinity" (Book IV, Ch 1)
So we needed to be persuaded how much God loves us, and what sort of people he loves; how much in case we despaired, what sort in case we grew proud."
- Augustine, "On the Trinity" (Book IV, Ch 1)
February 26, 2008
"Thinking that our work will glorify God when people do not even know we are Christians is like admiring an effective ad on TV that never mentions the product. People may be impressed but won't know what to buy."
- John Piper, "Don't Waste Your Life"
- John Piper, "Don't Waste Your Life"
January 13th, 2008
"God is not what men make Him out to be. The god manufactured by the imagination of men is always either an impotent, unintelligent, amoral observer sitting in the bleachers of our lives, or a heartless monster in the sky out to rob us of happiness and give us a flat tire, on a country road, in a rainstorm, at night. When we see Infinite Grace in sandals walking a dusty road that ends in a cross, we see the real and living God for what He is!"
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Salvation" (p 25)
"Satan's power doesn't always make people nasty; it frequently makes them nice."
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Savaltion" (p 41)
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Salvation" (p 25)
"Satan's power doesn't always make people nasty; it frequently makes them nice."
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Savaltion" (p 41)
April 28th, 2007
"When Knox was dying he asked his wife to read aloud the seventeenth chapter of St. John's Gospel, and said: 'Go read where I cast my first anchor.' "
- Jasper Ridley "John Knox" (p 24), originally quoted from Bannatyne "Memorials"
"Few Scotsmen have been less nationalistic in the narrow sense, and more cosmopolitan than Knox; but though he had learned to adopt himself well to English politics, his roots were in the revolutionary Protestantism of Scotland, not in the authoritarian Protestantism of England. He was not prepared to sever those roots for the sake of a mitre."
- Jasper Ridley "John Knox" (p 118)
"Externally, I commit no idolatry; but my wicked heart loveth the self, and cannot be refrained from vain imaginations, yea, not from such as were the fountain of all idolatry. I am no man-killer with my hands; but I help not my needy brother so liberally as I may and aught. I steal not horse, money, nor clothes from my neighbor; but that small portion of worldly substance I bestow not so rightly as His holy law requireth. I bear no false witness against my neighbor in judgement, or otherwise before men; but I speak not the truth of God so boldly as it becometh His true messenger to do. And thus in conclusion, there is no vice repugning to God's holy will, expressed in His law, wherewith my heart is not infected."
- John Knox in a letter to his mother-in-law Mrs. Bowes - June 23, 1553 (Letter I, Works, iii. 338-9)
- Jasper Ridley "John Knox" (p 24), originally quoted from Bannatyne "Memorials"
"Few Scotsmen have been less nationalistic in the narrow sense, and more cosmopolitan than Knox; but though he had learned to adopt himself well to English politics, his roots were in the revolutionary Protestantism of Scotland, not in the authoritarian Protestantism of England. He was not prepared to sever those roots for the sake of a mitre."
- Jasper Ridley "John Knox" (p 118)
"Externally, I commit no idolatry; but my wicked heart loveth the self, and cannot be refrained from vain imaginations, yea, not from such as were the fountain of all idolatry. I am no man-killer with my hands; but I help not my needy brother so liberally as I may and aught. I steal not horse, money, nor clothes from my neighbor; but that small portion of worldly substance I bestow not so rightly as His holy law requireth. I bear no false witness against my neighbor in judgement, or otherwise before men; but I speak not the truth of God so boldly as it becometh His true messenger to do. And thus in conclusion, there is no vice repugning to God's holy will, expressed in His law, wherewith my heart is not infected."
- John Knox in a letter to his mother-in-law Mrs. Bowes - June 23, 1553 (Letter I, Works, iii. 338-9)
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)
- 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)
April 3rd, 2007
"Men and women have always been spiritual beings. But modern culture, in its zeal to eliminate divisive influences and create a self-sufficient "enlightened" society, has ignored this fundamental truth. Along with denying God, today's social visionaries have denied man's intrinsic need for God. At the same time, Christianity has become a pale shadow of the radical Kingdom its Founder announced."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms In Conflict" (p 49)
"On a shattered and deserted stage, without a script, director, prompter, or audience, the actor is free to improvise his own part."
- Jean-Paul Sartre from Maurice Natonson "Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of Freedom" - Social Research, XIX (Sept. 1952), 378
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms In Conflict" (p 49)
"On a shattered and deserted stage, without a script, director, prompter, or audience, the actor is free to improvise his own part."
- Jean-Paul Sartre from Maurice Natonson "Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of Freedom" - Social Research, XIX (Sept. 1952), 378
February 20th, 2007
"When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on his side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others - not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one."
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 164)
"Once a man in united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?"
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 176)
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 164)
"Once a man in united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?"
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 176)
February 1st, 2007
"God is a Being in relationship and any truth pertaining to Him, in the final analysis, stands attested by exemplary relationships among his creatures."
- L.T. Jeyachandran (www.rzim.org), "The Church As Witness"
- L.T. Jeyachandran (www.rzim.org), "The Church As Witness"
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