^{A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

God has not promised to bless our good motives, dreams, and innovation. He has promised to bless his plan; that plan is that disciples make other disciples—everything else is a sideshow.
~ Bill Hull, 1946- , Author, speaker, focus on discipleship

We live in a culture where a new beginning is far more attractive than a long follow-through. Images are important. Beginnings are important. But an image without substance is a lie. A beginning without a continuation is a lie.
~ Eugene Peterson

Exodus 33:1-6, 15-23; 34:5-8

This is God’s universe, and God does things his way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe.
~ J. Vernon McGee, 1904-1988, minister, radio, Thru the Bible

A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that? Very nice, pious considerations that don’t bother anyone, that’s the way many would like preaching to be. Those preachers who avoid every thorny matter so as not to be harassed, so as not to have conflicts and difficulties, do not light up the world they live in.
~ Oscar A. Romero, 1917-1980, The Violence of Love, Bishop—El Salvador

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
~ Mark Batterson, 1969- , Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892, English Baptist Preacher

The glory of Christ is such, that it is of a transforming nature. It’s of a powerful nature: it changes all that behold it into the same image; it reaches to the bottom of the heart, to the most inner soul; it is a sight that purifies and beautifies.
~ Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, A Sight of the Glory of Christ, preacher, philosopher

The reason we are not able to see God is the faintness of our desire.
~ Meister Eckhart, 1260~1328, theologian, philosopher, mystic

^{A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.
~ Augustine of Hippo

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975, playwright and novelist

Exodus 19:2–8;20:1–3;24:7–11

For some, faith begins with a hard shell, a rigid set of answers and platitudes that keep them safe but eventually prevent them from growing into who they could be. The system that was initially protecting them now traps them.
~ Luke Norsworthy, Pastor and writer of God over Good

One of the reasons why I think Christians get tired of hearing about the law is because they never hear why they should obey the law.
~ Kevin DeYoung, taken from The Hole in Our Holiness

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
~ William Law, 1686-1761, Clergy within Church of England

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
~ A. W. Tozer, 1897-1963, The Knowledge of the Holy

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
~ Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, author of Jane Eyre