Drew

“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The old American revival hymn wonders about Jesus, “You ask me how I know He lives?” The hymn’s answer breathes the claustrophobic air of American piety, “He lives within my heart.”7 A small space indeed for the Lord of all time and space. With our democratic and individualistic impulses, our entrepreneurial instincts, our revivalist past, and our current psychotherapeutic preoccupations, it is small wonder that the more inward, the more “sincere” Christian faith is deemed to be, the more we tend to prize it.”
― Thomas G. Long, Preaching from Memory to Hope

“The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.”
― Thomas G. Long, Preaching from Memory to Hope

“In the Psalms, it is not those who lack faith who lament but those recognized for strong faith who bring their most honest and passionate feelings to God. Moreover, by the sheer number of laments in the Psalms, it would appear that one major message of the book is this very point: God invites his people to speak the truth of their lives, their pain, and their confusion to the One who can do something about it.”
― Glenn Pemberton, Hurting with God: Learning to Lament with the Psalms