Spirituality - Quotes
« Previous EntriesThe Insights of Life
Saturday, November 11th, 2006To demand that others should provide you with answers is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are most precious.
Janusz KorczakSource: How to Love a Child
Found at One House
Good Nietzsche Quotes
Thursday, November 9th, 2006He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Friederich NietzscheThe essential thing "in heaven and earth" is…that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted […]
Barth on the Resurrection
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006From Coming to the Quiet, a quote on resurrection from Barth:
"We do not like to see that we are deeply imprisoned, and that we absolutely cannot in any way help ourselves; that we are a people who live in the shadow and darkness of death; that this is proclaimed to us in the word "resurrection"–oh, […]
Browning on Heaven and Earth
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006Earth's crammed with Heaven,and every common bush afire with God;but only he who sees takes off his shoes.Elizabeth Barret Browning
Willard on Grace
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006I've posted stuff from this article before, but was reinspired by Mike (BTW)
In most churches we're not only saved by grace, we're paralyzed by it. We're afraid to do anything that might be a "work." The funny thing is we will preach to people for an hour that they can't do anything to be saved, […]
Bertrand Russell on Liberal Outlook
Friday, February 10th, 2006Interesting thoughts by Mark Dever (via JT - thanks!):
Bertrand Russell, the late, well-known, British philosopher wrote in 1950 that “The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may […]
Einstein on Understanding
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006If you can't explain something in such a way a child can understand it, you probably don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Adam Murray on Selling Out
Monday, January 30th, 2006Every day you have a chance to sell yourself for something - money, sex, fame, comfort. Jesus is Life, and that's all.
Adam Murray
Why Did Jesus Pray?
Thursday, January 26th, 2006The question has been often asked, 'If Jesus was indeed fully God, why did he pray to God?' If the scriptural record can be read candidly, we must insist that Jesus prayed because he needed to pray.
His praying was not a charade or play-acting; it meant something. He prayed not just to give a model […]
Willard on Measuring a Church
Monday, January 16th, 2006Pastors need to redefine success. The popular model of success involves the ABCs—attendance, buildings, and cash. Instead of counting Christians, we need to weigh them. We weigh them by focusing on the most important kind of growth—love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, kindness, and so on—fruit in keeping with the gospel and the kingdom.
Dallas Willard […]