In our world, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.
— C S Lewis, The Last Battle
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Category: Quotes (Page 6 of 10)
I listened to an interview with Matt and Julie Canlis. They both had quite profound things to say. One thing Matt said is sticking:
The biggest way to impact the world is to be trusted by a few.
And then, speaking of Christian faith:
Think of faith as trusting a person you know.
I know from the rest of what they said that faith includes being known by the person you trust. Instead of being “tossed out” when your uglies are uncovered, you’re given grace and honesty, which leads to change. Transformation, even.
Check out the Regent Audio Podcast, episode #74 with Matt and Julie Canlis.
I really want to be an advocate for whatever I find is healthy or good. I think people don’t change very much when all they have is a finger pointed at them. I think the only way people change is in relation to somebody who loves them.
– Fred Rogers
Gary Moon wrote in his recent biography of Dallas Willard, Becoming Dallas Willard, about J.P. Moreland’s visit after it became clear Willard would not live for much longer. “Are you afraid of dying?”
Willard smiled as he responded, “No, J. P., I actually believe the things I’ve been teaching all these years.”
Moon reports that Dallas Willard spoke about joy for his own funeral: “It’s really important to understand how joy cuts through everything. It cuts through everything. And to anticipate that your moment of passage from this earth will be one of great joy.”
Ministry is too sacred to be motivated by gain and too difficult to be motivated by duty. Only love can sustain us.
– Warren Wiersbe
Unconditional affirmation and unconditional love are not the same thing. To demand the former is to actually exclude the latter.
Sam Allberry
The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, “deny yourself” congregation. A consumer church is an antichrist church.
Eugene Peterson
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isacc Newton
I divested myself of despair
and fear when I came here.Now there is no more catching
one’s own eye in the mirror,there are no bad books, no plastic,
no insurance premiums, and of courseno illness. Contrition
does not exist, nor gnashingof teeth. No one howls as the first
clod of earth hits the casket.The poor we no longer have with us.
Our calm hearts strike only the hour,and God, as promised, proves
to be mercy clothed in light.
Jane Kenyon
Notes from the Other Side
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
-William Penn