A Few Favorite Quotes

  I love reading books and listening to sermons.  The author/speaker has invested countless hours and often sought the Lord diligently while preparing and its a beautiful moment when you come across a line or point that strikes your heart to the core.  Sometimes, its an encouraging word that acts as a bandage for a wound or a phrase that provides immense truth and conviction that reverberates through our soul. These are only a minuscule amount of words that hold deep meaning to me. Some are funny, others entirely serious, but the truths are inescapable.

This is God's universe and He does things His way. You may have a better way, but you don't have a universe -Francis Chen

Jesus came to comfort the afflicted, but He also came to afflict the comfortable -Jesus Freaks

This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging in God -Donald Miller

We are involved in a spiritual war. The enemy is formidable, the scope is universal, involvement is inevitable. Spiritual retreat only leads to spiritual defeat. The stakes are eternal. [but] we are not alone in this war. We do not fight this war for victory; we fight from victory! -David Platt

This gospel saves, its what people need! Do we believe that? We must refuse to live in self-centered Christianity that hoards it and as those in church buildings that diminish the view and character of God.-Platt

Where is the weeping in our worship? Is there humility? If brokeneess and humility have no place in our worship, then God has no place in our worship. -Platt

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. Tozer

[Man] is willing to share himself, sometimes even to sacrifice himself for a desired end, but never to dethrone himself. . . he is still in his own eyes a king on a throne -Tozer

We live out our lives sandwiched between a greater narrative and greater need. -Beth Moore

We are saved by grace for a purpose. He set us free so we can set others free. Not so we can have a little Christian "Bless Me" Club but so we can make a different in our dark world. Light is most effective in darkness. 

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitue, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds  with prayer as vanity. -Bonhoeffer

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. -Bonhoeffer

Christians cannot be governed by mere principles. Principles could carry one only so far. At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others. -Bonhoeffer