A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not […]
“When my thinking about God is correct, consistent and focused, I am, in some way, thinking correctly about everything else. When my thinking about God is incorrect, inconsistent or disjointed, I am thinking incorrectly about everything else in my life. More than anything else, I need a right view of God.” – Fil Anderson One […]
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas The story of the Count of Monte Cristo shows us a man consumed with the details of discouragement in his present circumstances. Edmond Dantès is a […]
“The Pharisee within usurps my true self whenever I prefer appearances to reality, whenever I am afraid of God, whenever I surrender control of my soul to rules rather than risk living in union with Jesus, when I choose to look good and not be good; when I prefer appearances to reality. – Brennan Manning […]
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy There is an immense joy in the Spirit of the Lord. C.S. Lewis contends that God is the most joyful being who has ever […]
Fortunately for us, God has a way of taking our question marks and straightening them out into exclamation points.” – Philip De Courcy When waters of life begin to get rapid, when the shores are lined with jagged rocks, when we come to what we feel is the edge of a precipice with the infinite […]
“Christians are a source of hope to the extent that others can find in them a source of strength and joy.” – Brennan Manning The world is in the balance at the moment. Times are tough and people are realigning what is important. Anxieties are high, and opinions and criticisms are being tossed about. We […]
“Quit keeping score altogether and surrender yourself with all your sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the score-keeper, but only his child redeemed by Christ.” – Thomas Merton We live in a society which is obsessed with freedoms. More appropriately we are experiencing a culture which is preoccupied with a distorted realization […]
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? – Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire on love; and at this hour millions would die for Him.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Love – Love has been largely manipulated word in our society. We have aligned it […]
“Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take; the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking the risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth to ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most […]
