"Leaving home is, then, much more than an historical event bound to time and place. It is a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong to God with every part of my being, that God holds me safe in an eternal embrace, that I am indeed carved in the palms of God's hands and hidden in their shadows."
— Henri Nouwen
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son, Part I, "Leaving Home"
life
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"Let us not be weary in well doing: let us persevere in sowing to the Spirit. For in due season, when the harvest is come, we shall reap, if we faint not. ... The opportunity in general is our lifetime; but there are also many particular opportunities. Satan is quickened in doing hurt, by the shortness of the time. By the same consideration let us be quickened in doing good."
— John Wesley
Source: Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, on Galatians 6:9–10
Labor, meaning
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"Those who truly know God need not hurry to prove themselves; a work that truly comes from God need not lean on human praise. Humility is not thinking little of oneself, but refusing to occupy the place that belongs to God alone."
— IntoOne
Source: IntoOne meditation
humble
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"In other words persevering in faith and hope, holding fast to your confidence in God, is not a way to keep from losing your standing in Christ; it is a way of showing that you have a standing in Christ. … In other words, my security and assurance is not a decision or a prayer that I remember doing in the past; my security and assurance is the faithfulness and power of God to keep me hoping in him in the future."
— John Piper
Source: Sermon “Eternal Security Is a Community Project” (Hebrews 3:12–19), August 18, 1996
Joy, perseverance
Views: 544
"Too late did I love You, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love You! For behold, You were within, and I without, and there did I seek You... You were with me, but I was not with You. ... You called, and cried aloud, and forced open my deafness."
— Augustine
Source: Confessions, Book X, ch. 27
Love, Search, Plan
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"Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her. When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. Nature is only the image, the symbol; but it is the symbol Scripture invites me to use. We are summoned to pass in through Nature, beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects."