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“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“At the Lausanne missions gathering in 2010, John Piper made the statement that “we should care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering.” He chose the word “care” quite carefully. He didn’t want to say we should do something about all suffering, because we can’t do something about everything. But we can care.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“Jesus knew the difference between urgent and important. He understood that all the good things he could do were not necessarily the things he ought to do.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“Most of us are long overdue for screen Sabbaths—segments of the day (even whole days) where we will not be “on the grid” or in front of an electronic device.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“God gives us Sabbath as a gift; it’s an island of get-to in a sea of have-to.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“We won’t say no to more craziness until we can say yes to more Jesus. We will keep choosing dinner rolls over the bread of life. We will choose the fanfare of the world over the feet of Jesus. We will choose busyness over blessing.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“remains a merely spiritual reality. But when we preach that Christ has become a particular man in a particular place issuing particular commands and dying on a particular cross exposing the particular sins of our particular lives, then the preaching ceases to be acceptable for many.”
― Daniel L. Akin, Exalting Jesus in 1,2,3 John

“God does not want us distracted. He does not want our loyalties to be divided. Our allegiances are to be His alone. He loves us that intensely.”
― Ed Stetzer, Compelled: Living the Mission of God

“Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together.”
― Margaret Feinberg, Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears.

“As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.”
― Margaret Feinberg, Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears.

“We should not “go to church” to get our self-centered needs met. Instead we go to worship the one true God as we serve alongside other believers.”
― Thom S. Rainer, I Will: Nine Traits of the Outwardly Focused Christian

“For many Christians, all other activities have become mandatory while the worship service has become an optional afterthought.”
― Thom S. Rainer, I Will: Nine Traits of the Outwardly Focused Christian

“Jesus did not say “make converts” or “teach them to pray a particular prayer.” Rather, this is about people who are born again through the power of the Savior who died and rose again. You and I are to participate in the work of multiplying the number of surrendered learners and followers of Christ. We are to lead people into the kingdom by way of the Cross.”
― Ed Stetzer, Compelled: Living the Mission of God

“if you think Lone Ranger Christianity is acceptable to God, you need to read the New Testament again. It’s time for millions of church members to connect relationally by getting involved in a group.”
― Thom S. Rainer, I Will: Nine Traits of the Outwardly Focused Christian

“We believe the church’s purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God’s glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God’s missionary in the world.”
― Ed Stetzer, Compelled: Living the Mission of God

“You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it’s time for a fight.”
― Ed Stetzer, Compelled: Living the Mission of God

“when we have every right (after all it’s “our church”), when we have always done it that way (no reason to change if we like it), and when we are in prominent positions (we have earned it), we can easily make it about us.”
― Ed Stetzer, Compelled: Living the Mission of God

“the health of the church is directly tied to the health of groups in the church. If you are not in a small group, a Sunday school class, or some other type of group, you are not contributing to the health of the church.”
― Thom S. Rainer, I Will: Nine Traits of the Outwardly Focused Christian

“William Bennett expressed it this way: “Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your”
― Jennifer Rothschild, Invisible: How You Feel Is Not Who You Are

“Divine truth becomes dynamic life only when we yield to Jesus by faith and follow Him.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ

“there is nothing worth clinging to more tightly than whatever God taps you on the shoulder for.”
― Kelly Minter, Wherever the River Runs: How a Forgotten People Renewed My Hope in the Gospel

“The most dangerous darkness in our “enlightened age” is the dense spiritual darkness that blinds the minds and controls the hearts of people who have never trusted Christ or who claim to know Him but don’t follow Him.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ

“When man’s tradition replaces God’s Word, then illusion replaces reality. We glory in the past but never grow in the present.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ

“Not what I have, but what I have not, is the first point of contact, between my soul and God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Beatitudes

“People who have made God in their own image are in the darkness, and they desperately need the light that streams from the Cross and the empty tomb.”
― John N. Oswalt, Isaiah

“The great danger of maturation is calcification.”
― John N. Oswalt, Isaiah

“The man who is quite satisfied with the name of a Christian, without the life of a Christian will never see God nor anything at all until his eyes are divinely opened.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Beatitudes

“God never intends for our lives to be shaped by conformity to a list of abstract rules. Rather, he intends for them to be shaped by a joyous pursuit of greater and greater likeness to the character of our covenant Lord, our Father.”
― John N. Oswalt, Isaiah

“Above all, joy should come from the true story of the joyful God bringing salvation to sinners so they could become His children.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, C Is for Christmas: The History, Personalities, and Meaning of Christ's Birth

“the Son of God was coming to earth—a King entering His domain! In heaven, angels do God’s bidding and offer ceaseless worship. How appropriate that heavenly servants be given a part in preparing the way for the Savior’s birth!”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, C Is for Christmas: The History, Personalities, and Meaning of Christ's Birth