This Sunday’s readings: James 1:1-4
Reflections
If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
~ C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, British author
No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be grown.
~ Henry Drummond, 1851-1897, Evangelist, Biologist, Lecturer, Writer
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
~ Elisabeth Elliott, 1926-2015, author, speaker and missionary
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love-object or its love.
~ Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Civilization and Its Discontents
So pain endures for a time. Its role is to purge us, to make us to know ourselves, and it drives us to the Lord to plead for mercy.
~ Julian of Norwich, 1342– 1416, English anchoress, Revelations of Divine Love
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person – the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
~ Oswald Chambers, 1874-1917, Evangelist, Teacher
There is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians.
~ G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, Author, Writer