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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Blaise Pascal

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus (Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist [1623-1662])

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Eugene Peterson

What happens here [in Mark’s Gospel] is that we are invited into becoming full participants in the story of Jesus and shown how to become such participants. We are not simply told that Jesus is the Son of God; we not only become beneficiaries of his atonement; we are invited to die his death and [...]

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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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Miroslav Volf

If God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make a final end to violence – that God would not be worthy of worship…the only means of prohibiting all recourse to violence by ourselves is to insist that violence is legitimate only when it comes from God…My thesis that the practice of [...]

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Unknown

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t want to, but too much has happened that we just can’t.

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