Reflection:
How much larger your life would be, if your self could become smaller in it.
~ G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and journalist
It is better to be hurt by the truth than to be comforted with a lie.
~ Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-born novelist and physician
…we must come back to our first principles. And the most basic of these is the fact that God is there and that he is objective to us. He is not there to conform to us; we must conform to him. He summons us from outside of ourselves to know him. We do not go inside of ourselves to find him. We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.
~ David F. Wells, author and theologian
While religious dogmatism is always a danger…. we’ve got more to fear from the easygoing narcissism that is so much part of the atmosphere nobody even thinks to protest or get angry about it.
~ David Brooks, New York Times commentator
The complete August 15th bulletin is here.