“One day as I stood in my office, looking out over the courtyard, I cried out to God, ‘I can’t do it,’ and God replied, ‘You’ll just have to.’ That sounds hard, but in a strange way it came as reassurance.” From Walk On by John Goldingay
Category: Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
Whatever my child may face in public school, I can assure you that none of it is subtle. On the other hand, the pernicious nature of the subconscious message of the exclusive private Christian school is the the message of upper-middle-class suburban Evangelicalism: materialism. Fourth-graders putting condoms on bananas OR materialism. Which one damages the… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
“If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to color my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love… If my attitude be one of fear, not faith, about one who has disappointed me; if I say, ‘Just what I… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week (part II)
“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is… Continue reading Quotation of the Week (part II)
Quotation of the Week
“This is another reason that living in proximity to those we are seeking to build relationships is so crucial. However, acknowledging this we need to recognize that, unlike most of the world, we have the freedom to choose where we live. Therefore, we need to be mindful of God’s direction in that freedom, submitting it… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
“It was a difficult book for me to write. My thought was pulled in two different directions by the blood of the innocent crying out to God and by the blood of God’s Lamb offered for the guilty. How does one remain loyal both to the demand of the oppressed for justice and to the… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
“If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that to another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” From… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
“If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” From If, by Amy Carmichael
Quotation of the Week
“If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory; if I forget that the way of the cross leads to the cross and not to a bank of flowers; if I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, so… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week
“The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have… Continue reading Quotation of the Week