For God is good – or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation
If you’ve ever stood at the edge of a canyon and seen the birds swooping below you and the clouds stretched out over your head, or if you’ve ever stood in a field and felt a tiny rush of fear as you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in over the horizon, then you know what this means. There is something about the grandeur of creation that calls out to the human heart, saying, “You are not all there is!” ~ Greg Gilbert, What Is the Gospel?
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not,, you will remian dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die. ~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
~ Corrie Ten Boom, 1892-1983, writer, concentration camp survivor
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent…that is exactly what discontent-(ment) is – a questioning of the goodness of God. ~ Jerry Bridges, 1929-2016, Author, speaker, Staff w/ Navigators
If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
~ Brennan Manning, 1934-2013, Author, Speaker
