I am a herald of the Great King.
~ Francis of Assisi
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour’s work as for a day’s. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.
~ Frederick Buechner
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
~ William Law, 1686-1761, Anglican Priest
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
~ Abraham Kuyper, 1837-1920, Dutch statesman, theologian
If we live in a denial of the realities of our need and we persist in this, we run the risk of existing in this forever. We will move towards something that’s like an asylum. Those in hell are diminished by the fact that they have denied the reality of themselves and the grace of God as well.
~ Dr. Jerry Root, Professor Emeritus, Wheaton College, CS Lewis scholar
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I’d rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn’t show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don’t have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.
~ Gary Haugen, 1963- , founder of International Justice Mission
“It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.” “None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.” “If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.”
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893-1957, English writer and poet
