In what we trust?

The man who cannot believe his senses and the man who cannot believe anything else are both insane.

-G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

"Jesus didn't come to make bad people good
but dead people alive."

-Ravi Zacharias

Surrender

There is only one thing God wants of us,
and that is our unconditional surrender.

Oswald Chambers

Made into wine

God can never make us wine
if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

Oswald Chambers

Temptation

Many of us, however, suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer, simply because we have refused to let God lift us to a higher plane where we would face temptations of another order.

-Oswald Chambers

Resolved : that all men should live for the glory of God.
Resolved second : that whether others do or not, I will.

-Jonathan Edwards

An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is deliverance in trouble,
which is very different.

Oswald Chambers

Whose desire?

Think of the last thing you prayed about -
were you devoted to your desire or to God?

-Oswald Chambers

Going against

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

G.K. Chesterton

Time

All we have to decide is

what to do with the time that is given to us.

JRR Tolkien

Tradition and traditionalism

"Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble."

-Jaroslav Pelikan
20th century theologian