Reflections

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

God loves an honest question.
~ Athol Dickson, The Gospel According to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me about Jesus

Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

We are what we choose. And we choose whatever our deepest passion compels us to be and to do. To understand the truth of this simple principle, we must examine choice’s power to shape our character.
~ Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future

Reflections

Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.
~ Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I’m afraid that they will get the “religion disease,” that the “church virus” will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.
~ Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong [or sin boldly], but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. … Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.
~ Martin Luther, Pastor-Theologian

There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don’t have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.
~ Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom