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 [...]
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C.S. Lewis
Posted in Beauty, Brokenness, Heaven, Humanity, Imagery, Joy, Love, Mystery on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Timothy Keller
Posted in Community, Fear, Love, Selfishness on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The opposite of fear is love. Fear is self-centeredness. Love is self-giving. The only way to finally destroy fear is in community. (Tim Keller, sermon on praying fears).
Vincent Van Gogh
Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]
Woody Allen
Posted in Love, Meaning, Sex on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. (Woody Allen, American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, [b.1935])
Dale Evans Rogers
Posted in Christmas, Love on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. (Dale Evans Rogers, American Singer, known as the “Queen of the West”)
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 [...]
Lauren Winner
Posted in Belief, Faith, God, Imagination, Love, Searching, Spirituality, Worship on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Latin credo means literally, ‘I give my heart.’ The word believe is a problematic one today, in part because it has gradually changed its meaning from being a language of certainty so deep that I could give my heart to it, to the language of uncertainty so shallow that only the ‘credulous’ would rely [...]
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