The darkness rages in us, but honest conversation is a practice of light
Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule
Category: Quotes
The more I use social media, the more I realize that the great danger is not in simply overusing social media, it is in living through social media. The problem is not so much the way it wastes time, it is the way it frames time.
Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule
How can we love our neighbor if we never allow her to reveal herself because we are always chattering?
Kyle David Bennett, Practices of Love
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Gossip is “pornography of the mouth” because it seeks the same thing that a lustful fantasy seeks: a cheap thrill at another person’s expense, while making zero effort to connect with or commit to that person. It dehumanizes, turning them into a thing to be used.
Scott Sauls
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness
St. Ignatius of Loyola
I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages
Charles Spurgeon
“Henri Nouwen pointed out that we find an identity in part through what others say about us. What others say about us can shape our self-identity in profound ways. Identities are not found; they are given. For many of us, identities are given by people who don’t have the right to identify us. True identities can be given only by God.”
Dave Lomas, The Truest Thing About You
If we wish to develop in the life of faith, to mature in our humanity, and to glorify God with our entire heart, mind, soul, and strength, the Psalms are necessary. We cannot bypass the Psalms. They are God’s gift to train us in prayer that is comprehensive (not patched together from emotional fragments scattered around that we chance upon) and honest (not a series of more or less sincere verbal poses that we think might please our Lord).
— Eugene Peterson, Answering God
God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:8