“To embrace one’s brokenness, whatever it looks like, whatever has caused it, carries within it the possibility that one might come to embrace one’s healing.” – Robert Benson A consistent platform for politicians is to offer solutions which will fix what has gone awry in society. When these men and women are then afforded these […]
“Previously, my main motive in life was to do a painting of myself, filled with bright colors and profound insights, so that all who looked upon it could be impressed. Now, however, I find that my role is to be a mirror; to brightly reflect the image of God through me.” – Philip Yancey It […]
“I don’t believe that there has been the beginning of a discovery that has been more important than this: True prayer takes place in the heart, not in the head. When I am praying I move from my head, where my knowledge of God resides, down into my heart, where my spirit meets God.” – […]
“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexplained tears, it is well to pay close attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“Many people flock to places and persons who promise intensive experiences of togetherness, cathartic emotions of exhilaration and sweetness, and liberating sensations of rapture and ecstasy. In our desperate need for fulfillment and our restless search for divine intimacy, we are all too prone to construct our own spiritual events.” – Henri Nouwen The commercialism […]
