^{Self-deception helps us deceive.
~ David Livingstone}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

^{Which ‘R’ is most important and why?}

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God “sending us” to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
~ C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, British writer and apologist

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
~ Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, baseball catcher & manager

~~~~~~~~ Matthew 13:24-30 ~~~~~~~~

There is something profoundly hypocritical about praising God for God’s mighty deeds of salvation and cooperating at the same time with the demons of destruction, whether by neglecting to do good or by actively doing evil. … Without action in the world, the adoration of God is empty and hypocritical, and degenerates into irresponsible and godless quietism.
~ Miroslav Volf, Reflections on a Christian Way of Being-in-the-World

Many of us struggle to know exactly what to pack when we go on our various travels. The Pilgrims in their voyage to the new world were no different.
It would be difficult to imagine a group of people more ill-suited to a life in the wilderness. They packed as if they had misunderstood the purpose of the trip, They found room for sundials and candle snuffers, a drum, a trumpet, and a complete history of Turkey. One William Mullins packed 126 pairs of shoes and thirteen pairs of boots. Yet they failed to bring a single cow or horse, plow or fishing line.
~ Bill Bryson, 1951- , journalist & author of Made in America

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
~ Billy Sunday, 1862-1935, baseball player & evangelist

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.
~ Russ Roberts, 1954- , known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms