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