“We look back on history and what do we see? Empires rising and falling, revolutions and counter-revolutions, wealth accumulating and wealth dispersed, one nation dominant and then another. Shakespeare speaks of ‘the rise and fall of great ones that ebb and flow with the moon.’ “In one lifetime I have seen my own fellow countrymen […]
Quotes
Quote from Malcolm Muggeridge
C.S. Lewis Quote: To love is to be vulnerable
Oswald Chambers Devotional: Sacred Service
When we say, “What a wonderful personality, what a fascinating person, and what wonderful insight!” then what opportunity does the gospel of God have through all of that? It cannot get through, because the attraction is to the messenger and not the message. If a person attracts through his personality, that becomes his appeal. If, […]
Quotes on “From Eternity to Here” by Frank Viola (Ch 5)
Quotes on “From Eternity to Here” by Frank Viola (Ch 5) The church, the bride of Christ, is the Second Eve. She is Christ in another form for she was taken out of Him. She takes the name of her Bridegroom. Just as Eve had Adam’s name before the fall, so the bride of Christ […]
Quotes on The Wounded Healer (Henry Nouwen)
A minster is not a doctor whose primary task is to take away pain. Rather, he deepens the pain to a level where it can be shared. When someone comes with his loneliness to the minister, he can only expect that his loneliness will be understood and felt, so that he no longer has to […]