This Sunday’s readings: Matthew 2:13-23

Reflections

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don’t have conflict, it can’t be a good story.
~ Donald Miller, 1971- , Author

No one who ever met Jesus Christ ever responded moderately to him. The only three things you see people doing when they meet the real Jesus are to run away from him in terror, assault him with fury, or prostrate themselves in utter surrender.
~ John Stott, 1921-2011, Priest/Theologian, Author: Basic Christianity

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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, Church of England

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
~ Fidel Castro

Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God’s plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.
~ N.T. Wright, The Day the Revolution Began

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
~ Floriano Martins, 1957- , Essayist

I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for her son’s crime?
~ Criss Jami, 1987- , Author: Killosophy