"There is dullness, monotony , sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer prized. By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere."
— Elisabeth Elliot
October 10, 2012
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
“Some parts of the human body appear to have no other purpose than to add beauty… like a man’s beard.”
- Saint Augustine
(Source: bgospelm)
May 9, 2012
"When a nation becomes as morally depraved, as spiritually blinded, and as steeped in humanism, hedonism, and materialism as America is, there is only one power in the entire universe that can meet and overcome such evil, and that is the power of the living God Himself, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, a visitation of the manifest presence of God."
— Del Fehsenfeld Jr.
April 17, 2012
"There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent to help he does not obtain in things present…But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself."
— Blaise Pascal
March 1, 2012
"Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic…Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it…Trust to the Word."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
February 15, 2012
Weak Desires
“If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, 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 by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis
If you find yourself being satisfied by sin, then you have not set your desires high enough. Christ will satisfy fully. Our desires can never be to high for Christ to fill.
February 3, 2012
January 31, 2012
"The church has only one altar, the altar of the Almighty…before which all creatures must kneel…Whoever seeks something other than this must keep away; he cannot join us in the house of God…The church has only one pulpit, and from that pulpit, faith in God will be preached, and no other faith, and no other will than the will of God, however well-intentioned."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
January 20, 2012
"The religion of Christ is not a tidbit after one’s bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing. People should at least understand and concede this if they call themselves Christian."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I want my life...
…to be about more than lusting after chicks and money.
I’ve got bigger things to focus on.
I don’t want a part of it.
