Dallas Willard

Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent — and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.
This is a parable of human existence in our times—not exactly that everyone is crashing, though [...]

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C.F. Blumhardt

You rack your brain to solve the mystery of the Savior, but you would do better to examine the puzzle of your own heart. You should be wondering why you are so impenetrable: why your intentions, which are always so noble, are followed by so few good deeds; why, despite your pious impulses, your life [...]

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Soren Kierkegaard

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has thrown off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Or are you terrified by it? I have seen men in real life [...]

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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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Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. (Samuel Butler, English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)

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Paul David Tripp

Sin is not just about willfulness; that is, a conscious stepping over God’s boundaries. Sin is also about blindness; that is, not seeing what needs to be seen to live as God has called me to live. The sinner is both willfully blind and blindly willful. (Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, p. [...]

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