C.S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a dulled world. (C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, p. 93)

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Benjamin Franklin

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. (Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography)

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Eugene Peterson

It is significant, I think, that in the presence of a story, whether we are telling it or listening to it, we never have the feeling of being experts – there is too much we don’t yet know, too many possibilities available, too much mystery and glory. Even the most sophisticated of stories tends to [...]

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Robert Webber

A Christ-centered worship – which is event-oriented worship – can never be static and merely intellectual because what happens is an actual and real communication of the power and benefit of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Worshiping churches recognize that every gathering of worship is ultimately a praise and thanksgiving for the overthrow [...]

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N.T. Wright

Those who celebrate the mighty resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, have an awesome responsibility. When we say, “Alleluia! Christ is risen,” we are saying that Jesus is Lord of the world, and that the present would-be lords of the world are not. When we sing, in the old hymn, that “Judah’s Lion burst [...]

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