Chad Ryan > Chad's Quotes

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”
― Basil the Great

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Do you ever think about all the knowledge we pour into our brains and how soon they will turn into mush in the grave? I think about it.”
― Bruce Waltke

“thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability,”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

“The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.”
― Miroslav Volf

“whatever the Roman Church may be otherwise, she wants to be and also is church of the cross, church of the Crucified, whose sacrificial death plays a greater part in its life and thought than in many Protestant Churches.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1