Eleanor Jo Harwell’s Reviews > Knowing God > Status Update

“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will, more resolute in the doing of it and less troubled, (not less sensitive, but less bewildered) than we were at the dark and painful things of which our life in this fallen world is full. The New Testament tells us that the fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness” (108)
I’m fired up

“Seek grace to work hard at whatever ever life calls you to do, and enjoy your work as you do it. Leave to God its issues; let him measure its ultimate worth; your part is to use all the good sense in enterprise at your command and exploiting the opportunities that lie before you (…)we can be sure that God knows what he is doing, and “doeth all things well”, even if for the moment he hides his hand” (107)

“The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor – spending and being spent – to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care, and concern, to do good to others – and not just their own friends – in whatever way there seems need” (63)

“All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me”

“There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic”

“There is great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose”