This Sunday’s readings: John 17:1-20

Reflections

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
~ Frank Tyger (1929-2011), editorial cartoonist, columnist and humorist

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hinge points in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
~ Neal A. Maxwell, 1926-2004, Scholar/Educator

Being holy… does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it means being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.
~ William Stringfellow, 1928-1985, A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer, Author/Speaker

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.
~ Clarence Jordan, 1912-1969, Farmer/Scholar

Folks, if we could lose our salvation, we would.
~ Voddie Baucham, Dean at African Christian University (Lusaka, Zambia)

This Sunday’s readings: John 16:27-33

Reflections

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
~ David Baldacci, The Camel Club

Persecution is easier to understand when it’s physical: torture, death, imprisonment… American persecution is like an advanced stage of cancer; it eats away at you, yet you cannot feel it. This is the worst kind of persecution.
~ An underground house church leader in the Middle East

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
~ Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey (1914-2003), Author and Illustrator

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
~ P.J. O’Rourke, American satirist and journalist