March 29th, 2007

"So little do we see before us in the world; and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that He does not leave His creatures so absolutely destitute but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer their deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction."
- Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" (p 247)

March 26th, 2007

"...it may not be amiss for all people who shall meet with my story to make this just observation from it, viz., how frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into."
- Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" (p 178)

March 22nd, 2007

"Fathers are worked to a frazzle and so are too dogged to spend quality time with children; mothers are lured away from their little children to the work force; children have their own activities; and the one things that pulls them all to the same room makes zombies out of them all: the television."
- John Piper (www.desiringgod.org), "The Children, The Church, The Chosen"

"As for my solitary life, it was nothing; I did not so much as pray to be delivered from it or think of it; it was all of no consideration in comparison to this; and I added this part here to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction."
- Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" (p 98)