Wisdom

[When] Jesus Himself fasted, He was not fasting to repent or to bring His desires under control, of course, but to demonstrate His absolute dependence upon His Father. Peter C. Moore

If we really think that home is elsewhere, and that this life is a ‘wandering to find home,’ why should I not look forward to the arrival? C. S. Lewis

You were planned for God’s pleasure. … God did not NEED to create you, but he CHOSE to create you for … his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight. Rick Warren

“If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselves. This is what the gospel represents, and it’s what the gospel requires.” – Radical (David Platt)

You are not tempted because you are evil; you are tempted because you are human. Fulton J. Sheen

God would never permit evil if he could not bring good out of evil. Thomas Watson

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God’s solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it’s a unique form of rest. It’s to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It’s discovering, as David

A Christian is a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, a hand through which Christ helps. Unknown

Will you let the fear of a false world, that has no love for you, keep you from the fear of that God, who has only created you, that he may love and bless you to all eternity? William Law