"Before God becomes satisfied with us, He will take everything of our so-called wealth, until we learn that he is our Source; as the psalmist said, "All my springs are in you."
- John Piper
"Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show my Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. say to my soul, "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me the grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
W. A. Tozer
"Before God becomes satisfied with us, He will take everything of our so-called wealth, until we learn that he is our Source; as the psalmist said, "All my springs are in you."
- John Piper
- John Piper
"Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show my Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. say to my soul, "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me the grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
W. A. Tozer
Tim Keller reckons that this sentiment: “I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck." (Annie Dillard) is exactly how Mary felt when Jesus first appears to her after his resurrection, and calls her name.
"If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high and your joy will be full."
- John Piper
"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship--when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."
- Oswald Chambers, from My Utmost for His Highest.
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
- C.S.Lewis 'The Four Loves'
"No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God's strength has his strength not been needed to carry you through." - Charles Spurgeon
"Love is the supreme ethic. Where there is the possibility of love, there must be the reality of free will. Where there is the reality of free will, there will inevitably be the possibility of sin. Where there is sin, there is the need for a Savior. Where there is a Savior, there is the hope for redemption. Only in the Judeo-Christian worldview does this sequence find its total expression and answer. The story from sin to redemption is only in the gospel with the ultimate provision of a loving God."
- Ravi Zacharias
"Total depravity is not just badness, but blindness to beauty and deadness to joy."- John Piper
"Heaven is that remote music that you are born remembering."
-C. S. Lewis
"We suffer from chronic soul amnesia..."
- Ann Voscamp
"If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high and your joy will be full."
- John Piper
"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship--when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."
- Oswald Chambers, from My Utmost for His Highest.
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
- C.S.Lewis 'The Four Loves'
"No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God's strength has his strength not been needed to carry you through." - Charles Spurgeon
"Love is the supreme ethic. Where there is the possibility of love, there must be the reality of free will. Where there is the reality of free will, there will inevitably be the possibility of sin. Where there is sin, there is the need for a Savior. Where there is a Savior, there is the hope for redemption. Only in the Judeo-Christian worldview does this sequence find its total expression and answer. The story from sin to redemption is only in the gospel with the ultimate provision of a loving God."
- Ravi Zacharias
"Total depravity is not just badness, but blindness to beauty and deadness to joy."- John Piper
"Heaven is that remote music that you are born remembering."
-C. S. Lewis
"We suffer from chronic soul amnesia..."
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