Reflections
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
~ D.A. Carson, 1946- , New Testament Scholar/Theologian
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
~ Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Theoretical Physicist
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
~ Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
~ Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight
The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer. We seem unwilling to pay the price of living with our fellows in creative and profound relationships.
~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1888-1973, The Christian Future
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
We were created with this relational likeness and we long for relational connection because God exists in a relationship of love.
~ Richard Plass and James Cofield, co-authors of The Relational Soul
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
~ T. S. Eliot