"You never find God asking persons to dream up what they want to do for Him. We do not sit down and dream what we want to do for God and then call God in to help us accomplish it. The pattern in the Scripture is that we submit ourselves to God and we wait until God shows us what He is about to do, or we watch to see what God is doing around us and join Him."
— Henry Blackaby
Source: Henry T. Blackaby & Claude V. King, Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God (1994)
Visions, Plans
Views: 486
"We must always remember that Satan always disguises himself as an angel of light. Everything he presents seems reasonable... He offers what appears to be a wise path, a gentle path, a path of compromise and ease."
— Fulton J. Sheehan
Source: Communism and the Conscience of the West
Satan, Light, Angels
Views: 448
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing."
— C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity, Book III, ch. 10 "Hope"
The meaning of life
Views: 475
"The story of our salvation stands radically over and against the philosophy of upward mobility. The great paradox which Scripture reveals to us is that real and total freedom is only found through downward mobility. The Word of God came down to us and lived among us as a slave. The divine way is indeed the downward way."
— Henri Nouwen
Source: The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life, ch. 1
Downward, serving, humble
Views: 544
"I try to stop people from saying the foolish thing: ‘I accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept Him as God.’ That’s something we shouldn’t say. A person who claims to be God but isn’t is either a madman or a devil. You have to choose: either this person is the son of God, or a madman or something worse."
— C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity
Madman, devil
Views: 489
"The heart of the matter is saying we know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind—how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body."
— Dallas Willard
Source: “A Conversation with Dallas Willard About Renovation of the Heart,” Renovaré Perspectives (c. 2003)