True thankfulness is the exercise of love to God on occasion of his goodness to us. So there is love in a true and childlike fear of God; for a childlike fear differs from a slavish fear, for a slavish fear has no love in it. And all these three graces of love, humility, and […]
Quotes
C.S. Lewis Quotes – The Weight of Glory
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant […]
Quotes from “The Republic of Plato”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.” “I am the wisest man […]
Quote on Friendship
This article was found in Tim Keller’s book, The Meaning of Marriage. “…the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person–having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is […]
Quotes from Charles Stanley about Prayer
My whole life has been wrapped in asking, Who is God? How do I have an intimate relationship with him? How can I listen to him knowing that he’s the one doing the speaking? I want the Holy Spirit to interpret the truth to me. I think that quiet intimacy with him, for me, is […]
Quote from Jonathan Edwards: All the Graces of Christianity Connected
Excerpts from Charity and Its Fruits by Jonathan Edwards. True thankfulness is no other than the exercise of love to God on occasion of his goodness to us. So there is love in a true and childlike fear of God; for a childlike fear differs from a slavish, for a slavish fear has no love […]