Category Archives: Quotable

GLORIOUS COMPLEXITY

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“I have heard it said a thousand times that people seek out religion in order to escape complexity and uncertainty. I was moved and instructed precisely by the vast theater Edwards’s vision proposes for complexity and uncertainty, for a universe that is orderly without being mechanical, that is open to and participates in possibility, indeterminacy, and even providence. It taught me to think in terms that finally did some justice to the complexity of things.”

Pulitzer-prize winning author Marilynne Robinson

CUTTING THROUGH CONFUSION

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A sample of Reno’s words: “…the discussion seems to want something impossible: ideals without judgments, goals without rules, principles without ‘discrimination.’ This reflects the incoherence of modern liberal culture…”

The full piece is here: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/10/catholicism-sex-and-marriage

TASTY, BUT ACCESSIBLE COOKIES

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Strobel has put the Jonathan Edwards cookies on a lower shelf while not allowing the treats to taste “store bought.” Formed for the Glory of God is a well-written, accessible, and a beautiful treatment of the spiritual life.

One quote to give you a feel: “The cross is not an event to leave, nor is it a starting line; it is the path itself.”

PERSEVERE AND BE READY!

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“Man of God, if you want to serve God and cannot find the propitious occasion, wait awhile in prayer and your opportunity will beak on your path like a sunbeam.  There was never a true and valiant heart that failed to find a fitting sphere somewhere or other in His service. Every diligent laborer is needed in some part of His vineyard. You may have to linger, you may seem as if you stood in the market idle, because the Master would not engage you, but wait there in prayer, and with your heart boiling over with a warm purpose, and your chance will come. The hour will need its man, and if you are ready, you as a man, shall not be without your hour.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon
HT: George Grant

SOCRATES

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Yes, this is what he really looked liked.
Here is some wisdom from the man who could be rather annoying with his endless questions: “I did not care for the things most people care about: making money, having a comfortable home…” (Socrates, Quoted in Apology by Plato)

DISASTER

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“Madeleine L’Engle keenly observes in her book, A Stone for a Pillow, that our English word ‘disaster’ comes from the roots dis- (meaning ‘separation’) and -aster (meaning ‘star’).  Disaster is thus a separation from the stars, a fragmenting of creation, the shattering of what God formed  as an interconnected whole.”

(As quoted in Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus, by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison, p. 100)

By the way, Slow Church may be the best book I’ve ever read on the nature of the church.  

CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-EVANGELICAL

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“…I went to Evangelical churches fifty-two Sundays a year for the better part of 19 years, and I cannot for the life of me remember once when the name of a theologian was mentioned…
Instead of an intellectual tradition, it is a church built on emotion.  Every sermon is a revival stump speech about the evils of the world and the need for salvation.”
The rest of this short, but extremely important piece is here: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/ex-evangelical-pro-gay-millennial/