^{Anxiety is love’s greatest killer.
~ Anais Nin}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow, brother, of its sorrows; but, ah! it empties today of its strength.
~ Alexander MacLaren, 1826-1910, from Sermons Preached in Union Chapel

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
~ Harry Ironside, 1876-1951, preacher, teacher author

~~~~~~~~ Matthew 6:25-34 ~~~~~~~~

When I was sick, I only looked inward. Through healing, I started seeing everyone else.
~ Rebekah Lyons, contemporary speaker & author

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
~ William Wilberforce, 1759-1833, politician, abolitionist

All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief[…] Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths—but not in isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain[…] We must acknowledge it and share it.
~ Julia Cameron, 1948- , author, artist, playwright

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
~ John Green, 1977- , author

We are living in an age when anxiety is sweeping us further into a polarized, rage-filled world to escape the fears we refuse to name.
~ Dan B. Allender, PhD, professor of counseling psychology

Anxiety is the invitation to go thru the path of pain. [I]n fact, redemption in essence, is going through the path of suffering and out of it, becoming something better than what we started with. That’s the beauty of the Gospel. Becoming something more than before.
~ Curtis Chang, 1968- , theologian, consulting faculty

How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
~ Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006, American poet, Poet Laureate 1974-76 & 2000

^{Fasting from any nourishment,
activity, involvement or pursuit
—for any season—
sets the stage for God to appear.}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?
~ Randy Alcorn, 1954- , pastor & author

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew 6:19-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Our ideal self is revealed in what we value (passion), how we understand the world (belief), and what we do to reach our ideal (behavior). Our passion, belief, and behavior fit together so intimately that I can say this with confidence: What we do is what we really value.
~ Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying, “Why?”
~ Dallas Willard, 1935-2013, philosopher, work in Christian spiritual formation

Peter Singer’s argument depends on a fairly straightforward moral principle: “If we can prevent something very bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, then we are morally obligated to do so…”

Because giving money is regarded as an act of charity, it is not thought that there is anything wrong with not giving. The charitable man may be praised, but the man who is not charitable is not condemned.
~ Peter Singer, 1946- , Australian philosopher

Everyone has treasures. It is an essential part of being human. A main part of intimacy between two persons is precisely the mutual knowledge of their treasures. To discuss our treasures is to deal with the fundamental structure of your soul.
~ Dallas Willard, from The Divine Conspiracy