Beverly

“Oftentimes, if you ask Christians why they believe in God, you’ll hear answers like “I just know He’s there,” or “I can feel His presence.” Our personal experiences with God are important, of course, but if experiences are all we have to go on, it can be really easy to question their basis in reality during difficult times.”
― Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture

“we humans are—broken reflectors. Alone we reflect a little piece of who God is. Together and redeemed by Christ, we will reflect him fully.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“The tie that functionally binds the worldviews of millions of people is the authority of the self rather than the authority of any given religion and its god(s).”
― Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture

“Should someone ask, But what is the use of praying to One whose will is already fixed? We answer, Because He so requires it. What blessings has God promised without our seeking them? “If we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us” (I John 5:14), and He has willed everything that is for His child’s good.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God