Stuart

“To get my hands up. To grope for the pillars. To saddle up the mustang and hang on tight. To live for this woman who is giving her life for me, for these little humans who are our love made flesh. Ride the roaring wave of providence with eager expectation. To search for the stories all around me. To see Christ in every pair of eyes. To write a past I won’t regret. To reach the dregs of the life I’ve been given and then to lick the bottom of my mug. To live hard and die grateful. And to enjoy it.”
― N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“Chesterton’s witty observation usually holds: “As is common in most modern discussions the unmentionable thing is the pivot of the whole discussion.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship

“And then on top of all of that, we are also entrusted with making new people, more immortals. We are bringing them into existence through biological conception, but the project hardly ends there. All day long, we are in varying degrees helping to form the kind of person who is aiming for everlasting glory or everlasting disgust.”
― Toby J. Sumpter, No Mere Mortals: Marriage for People Who Will Live Forever

“Rembrandt didn’t idealize his subjects. He painted what he saw, which was a mixture of glory and fallenness. He was criticized by his contemporaries for using washerwomen as his models rather than women who looked like Greek goddesses.”
― Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts