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“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.”
― Tim Hansel

“If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience.”
― John MacArthur, Truth For Today A Daily Touch Of God's Grace

“It is not that he is all that will matter, as if the final conquest of evil and the resurrection of our bodies were trifling things; he is the center in that he is the fountainhead and source of all the blessings of the new creation.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Such are the problems with nontriune gods and creation. Single-person gods, having spent eternity alone, are inevitably self-centered beings, and so it becomes hard to see why they would ever cause anything else to exist. Wouldn’t the existence of a universe be an irritating distraction for the god whose greatest pleasure is looking in a mirror? Creating just looks like a deeply unnatural thing for such a god to do. And if such gods do create, they always seem to do so out of an essential neediness or desire to use what they create merely for their own self-gratification. God’s Ecstasy Everything changes when it comes to the Father, Son and Spirit. Here is a God who is not essentially lonely, but who has been loving for all eternity as the Father has loved the Son in the Spirit. Loving others is not a strange or novel thing for this God at all; it is at the root of who he is.”
― Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

“Indeed, in the triune God is the love behind all love, the life behind all life, the music behind all music, the beauty behind all beauty and the joy behind all joy.”
― Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

“There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.”
― Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

“Clearly the salvation of this God is better even than forgiveness, and certainly more secure. Other gods might offer forgiveness, but this God welcomes and embraces us as his children, never to send us away.”
― Michael Reeves, The Good God: Enjoying Father, Son and Spirit

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
― John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting And Prayer

“Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“The idea of holiness is so central to biblical teaching that it is said of God, “Holy is his name” (Luke 1:49). His name is holy because He is holy. He is not always treated with holy reverence. His name is tramped through the dirt of this world. It functions as a curse word, a platform for the obscene. That the world has little respect for God is vividly seen by the way the world regards His name. No honor. No reverence. No awe before Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Religion consists very much in giving God that place in our view and feelings which he actually fills in the universe.”
― Edward Payson

“The enemy is Resistance.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
― Steven Pressfield

“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”
― Steven Pressfield

“Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss