^{A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
While the truth that we cannot escape God’s all-seeing eye may weigh us down at times, it is finally the only remedy for our uneasiness. If we wish to hide from the penetrating gaze of holy love, it is because we know it falls on what is unholy and unloving within us. Only under God’s steady gaze of love are we able to find the healing and restoration we so desperately need.
~ Marjorie Thompson, Director of Pathways Center for Spiritual Leadership

Taste and see that the Lord is sweet. He was made sweet to you because he liberated you. You had been bitter to yourself when you were occupied only with yourself. Drink the sweetness.
~ Augustine of Hippo, Sermon on the 33rd Psalm

Exodus 40:20-37

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
~ Guido “Guy” Fawkes, 1570-1606, member of the ‘gunpowder plot’ of 1605

What we have at the moment isn’t as the old liturgies used to say, ‘The sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,’ but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
~ N. T. Wright, Former Bishop of Durham, Surprised by Hope

Jesus Christ says, ‘Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.’ This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.
~ Tim Keller, pastor, author

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
~ Augustine of Hippo

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, 19th Century

Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.
~ C.H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892

^{A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

God has not promised to bless our good motives, dreams, and innovation. He has promised to bless his plan; that plan is that disciples make other disciples—everything else is a sideshow.
~ Bill Hull, 1946- , Author, speaker, focus on discipleship

We live in a culture where a new beginning is far more attractive than a long follow-through. Images are important. Beginnings are important. But an image without substance is a lie. A beginning without a continuation is a lie.
~ Eugene Peterson

Exodus 33:1-6, 15-23; 34:5-8

This is God’s universe, and God does things his way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe.
~ J. Vernon McGee, 1904-1988, minister, radio, Thru the Bible

A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that? Very nice, pious considerations that don’t bother anyone, that’s the way many would like preaching to be. Those preachers who avoid every thorny matter so as not to be harassed, so as not to have conflicts and difficulties, do not light up the world they live in.
~ Oscar A. Romero, 1917-1980, The Violence of Love, Bishop—El Salvador

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
~ Mark Batterson, 1969- , Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892, English Baptist Preacher

The glory of Christ is such, that it is of a transforming nature. It’s of a powerful nature: it changes all that behold it into the same image; it reaches to the bottom of the heart, to the most inner soul; it is a sight that purifies and beautifies.
~ Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, A Sight of the Glory of Christ, preacher, philosopher

The reason we are not able to see God is the faintness of our desire.
~ Meister Eckhart, 1260~1328, theologian, philosopher, mystic