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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b67f0f | It would upset us, but would we think it unloving if a doctor told us we had a potentially fatal cancer? And would the doctor not tell us if the cancer could be eradicated? Why then do we not tell unsaved people about the cancer of sin and evil and how the inevitable penalty of eternal destruction can be avoided by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c87a427 | We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we s.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 51c47af | If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers. | learning life mistakes nature parenting teacher | Randy Alcorn | |
| 054486e | When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, "It is finished" (John 19:30). The Greek word translated "it is finished" was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant "paid in full". Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked "paid in full"." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1de7812 | Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it. | giving money stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 2af4d3d | It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial.. | giving kingdom-of-god return-of-christ stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 1f220ba | Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ba253ad | God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7af2548 | In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse. | curse prosperity stewardship wealth | Randy Alcorn | |
| bfa2a7f | wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| cbc1f27 | For every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8525d1a | The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER | Randy Alcorn | ||
| bf9bab6 | As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." God's thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into words and reveals them in Scripture, he expects us to study them, meditate on them, and understand them--again, not exhaustively, but accurately." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 65aeb7f | We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 803d9a6 | After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, "If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came."3 Our own suffering is often our wake-up call. But even if you aren't now facing it, look around and you'll see many who are. ... Suffering and evil exert a force that either pushes us away from God or pulls us toward him. ... Unfortunately, most e.. | faith god justice suffering | Randy Alcorn | |
| 131b64a | And do you think your refusal to believe will convince God to change his nature? He is who he is no matter what you think of him. Despite what Americans believe, the universe is not a democracy. Truth is not determined by the majority. As for hell, if you were as just and holy as God is, you would understand that all men deserve hell. It is no puzzle that men should go to hell. What is a puzzle is that men should go to heaven. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e1dc0d1 | Never forget Yesu is King. Never forget your home is in another world. Never forget your father will be waiting to see you again. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 672a1a9 | A Greek philosopher said, 'All men think it is only the other man who is mortal'. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood - our mortality. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1e9390c | Shouldn't we just admit the obvious--that the New Testament call to discipleship, compassion, and giving leaves no room for the way many of us are thinking and living? Is it time to get beyond the theoretical stance of 'I'd be willing to give up anything if God asked me to,' and start actually giving up things in order to do what He's commanded us? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 6aa5b5a | Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 4f7e9f7 | Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.) | discipleship giving grip hoarding kingdom possessions purpose selfish sharing surrender | Randy Alcorn | |
| 3f69d5b | If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention. | christianity heaven | Randy Alcorn | |
| c49de63 | Most of us find it very difficult to want "Heaven" at all--except in so far as "Heaven" means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world. Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we do not recognize it. C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 492679f | Life on earth matters not because it's the only life we have, but precisely because it isn't--it's the beginning of a life that will continue without end. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| fe99e8b | No death, no suffering. No funeral homes, abortion clinics, or psychiatric wards. No rape, missing children, or drug rehabilitation centers. No bigotry, no muggings or killings. No worry or depression or economic downturns. No wars, no unemployment. No anguish over failure and miscommunication. No con men. No locks. No death. No mourning. No pain. No boredom. No arthritis, no handicaps, no cancer, no taxes, no bills, no computer crashes, no.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0208045 | I]f you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 4082e48 | to shrink the circle of intimate community to the smallest possible circumference. This is the spoiling of faithful friendship. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| ed6e966 | Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak'. Such a worldview is inherent in the fairy-tale (and Christian) idea of the happy ending in which the dispossessed are restored to joy; but perhaps Tolkie.. | fantasy tolkien | John Garth | |
| 0c412ff | And you probably have little idea of how delicious - how toothsome - how scrumptious - they are when eaten fresh. Of course, I have my worm larder -" He corrected himself. "Worm larders, well stocked, but the earthworm pursued, or promptly pounced upon, and eaten fresh - as I've said - Ah! the earthworm, there's nothing like it! You can have your slugs and your wireworms and your leatherjackets and as many ground beetles as you like to eat .. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| fee7a9c | Elected fifth president of the United States, Monroe transformed a fragile little nation - "a savage wilderness," as Edmund Burke put it - into "a glorious empire." Although George Washington had won the nation's independence, he bequeathed a relatively small country, rent by political factions, beset by foreign enemies, populated by a largely unskilled, unpropertied people, and ruled by oligarchs who controlled most of the nation's land an.. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 6d05382 | Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came. | James Joyce | ||
| e766799 | And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave? I think it will contribute to my understanding of the world, of people. More so than say, the old lady who has lived in the same house her entire life, who has borne children both alive and dead? Who tends her soil; who sees the sun shine and the rain fall over the land, winter, spring, summer and autumn? What might you say to the idea that we all have a capacity for wi.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| d988b72 | Grief is not an event, my dear, but a passage, a pilgrimage along a path that allows us to reflect upon the past from points of remembrance held in the soul. At times the way is filled with stones underfoot and we feel pained by our memories, yet on other days the shadows reflect our longing and those happinesses shared. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 5bdfb29 | With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's understanding of what is considered good or bad, or right or wrong in the world of art. With the artist who has achieved mastery, skill, experience and knowledge are transparent, leaving only the message for all to see. | inspirational masterpiece mastery | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 69a4e65 | She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the w.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8306849 | The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel. | hunger sustenance | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| c785e12 | War's always the same though--politicians square off and ordinary lads do their dirty work. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| b852268 | a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII): "...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side." | maisie-dobbs pre-wwii | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| ed5b81f | I believe it is to our detriment that age gives us a certain mistrust of those younger than ourselves, and we fail to see the strength within them to assume the burden of truth. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| f9cd692 | truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time. | truth | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 6a22d4b | He knew that his day was coming to an end. On July 4, 1909, as he stood with friends on the roof of the Reliance Building, looking out over the city he adored, he said, "You'll see it lovely. I never will. But it WILL be lovely." | Erik Larson | ||
| 0d9c9dd | Anti-violence politics, along with other revolutionary impulses, changed from a focus on working to transform patriarchy, racism, and poverty to cooperation and integration with the police. This has proven to be a significant turn because the police are, ironically, the embodiment of patriarchy, racism, and the enforcement of the US class system. John | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 9529432 | Doc didn't have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn't need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| bcc4ef0 | You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them in your face. A stranger in a bar could do the same... | psychoanalysis psychology | Sarah Schulman |