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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Augustine
Posted in Creator, Heart, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. (St. Augustine, [354-430])
Blaise Pascal
Posted in Belief, Exclusivity, Experience, God, Gospel, Heart, Image of God, Jesus Christ, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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])
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, God, Heart, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The love of God and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely in a state of rivalship, but in a state of enmity—and that so irreconcilable, that they cannot dwell together in the same bosom. We have already affirmed how impossible it were for the heart, by any innate elasticity of its [...]
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, Heart, Humanity, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is seldom that any of our tastes are made to disappear by a mere process of natural extinction. At least, it is very seldom, that this is done through the instrumentality of reasoning. It may be done by excessive pampering—but it is almost never done by the mere force of mental determination. But what [...]
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