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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Dallas Willard
Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Brokenness, Culture, Experience, Humanity, Mankind, Spirituality, Westernism on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Beauty, Brokenness, Heaven, Humanity, Imagery, Joy, Love, Mystery on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach [...]
Lauren Winner
Posted in Brokenness, Prayer on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God doesn’t just turn up when you page Him. He is right where He always is, and what regular, daily-maybe-twice prayer gives us is some more hint of just where that is, and how to get there, and one of the things liturgy gives us is a way to get there when all our other [...]
Donald Miller
Posted in Brokenness, Gospel, Identity, Jesus Christ on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But if the gospel of Jesus is relational; that is, if our brokenness will be fixed, not by our understanding of theology, but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy which only heaven knows… Perhaps this is what the apostles stumbled upon. (Donald Miller, Searching for God [...]
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