A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
While the truth that we cannot escape God’s all-seeing eye may weigh us down at times, it is finally the only remedy for our uneasiness. If we wish to hide from the penetrating gaze of holy love, it is because we know it falls on what is unholy and unloving within us. Only under God’s steady gaze of love are we able to find the healing and restoration we so desperately need.
~ Marjorie Thompson, Director of Pathways Center for Spiritual Leadership
Taste and see that the Lord is sweet. He was made sweet to you because he liberated you. You had been bitter to yourself when you were occupied only with yourself. Drink the sweetness.
~ Augustine of Hippo, Sermon on the 33rd Psalm
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
~ Guido “Guy” Fawkes, 1570-1606, member of the ‘gunpowder plot’ of 1605
What we have at the moment isn’t as the old liturgies used to say, ‘The sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,’ but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
~ N. T. Wright, Former Bishop of Durham, Surprised by Hope
Jesus Christ says, ‘Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.’ This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.
~ Tim Keller, pastor, author
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
~ Augustine of Hippo
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, 19th Century
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.
~ C.H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892