Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word,
the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
~ Dietrich Bonhöffer
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
The very thing we are afraid of, our brokenness, is the door to our Father’s heart.
~ Paul Miller, author, executive director, discipling ministry
More solemn oaths are often sworn by a look and a movement of the head than are heard in law-courts.
~ Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, novelist & playwright, Cousin Bette
As my AA and NA friends have repeatedly reminded me, rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery.
~ from Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets
The living human community that language creates involves living human bodies. We need to talk together, speaker and hearer here, now. We know that. We feel it. We feel the absence of it. Speech connects us so immediately and vitally because it is a physical, bodily process, to begin with.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018, author, The Wave in the Mind
It is my conviction that our heavenly Father says the same to us every day: “My dear child, you must always remember who you are.”
~ John Stott, 1921-2011, Anglican priest, theologian
We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.
~ David G. Benner, 1947- , Psychologist, The Gift of Being Yourself
Thus to wait for the Lord is to live the covenant life, to commit the future into God’s hands by means of living a daily life that shows that we know his ways of integrity, honesty, faithfulness, simplicity, mercy, generosity, and self denial. The person who does not wait for these things may be waiting for something, but he or she is not waiting for the Lord.
~ John Oswalt, 1940- , scholar, NIVAC Commentary: Isaiah, Zondervan
For so sworn good or evil, an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world’s end.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Silmarillion