Carl

“As younger men watch you and me running our gun lap, any anxiety they may feel about getting older should evaporate, simply by watching how we’re doing it, by seeing what Christ can make possible even in our aging, diminishing years.”
― Robert Wolgemuth, Gun Lap: Staying in the Race with Purpose

“In the center of this value system is our definition of success. No rational human being wants to be a failure. No one wants to think that he has wasted his life. No one wants to think that in the end she will look back and realize that she invested in things that just didn’t matter. Everyone wants to think that his or her life is or will be successful. But what is success?”
― Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional

“regarding your willingness to learn, even at your age. I even remind you of one of my favorite statements, a bit of wisdom from Henry Ford, a man whom many would say is among history’s greatest inventors: “Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” How’s that for a sweet promise?”
― Robert Wolgemuth, Gun Lap: Staying in the Race with Purpose

“The Cost of Freedom God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them—but only if the people will let Him. In that way He has really and truly limited His power. Sometimes we wonder why He has done so, or even wish that He hadn’t. But apparently He thinks it worth doing. He would rather have a world of free beings, with all its risks, than a world of people who did right like machines because they couldn’t do anything else. The more we succeed in imagining what a world of perfect automatic beings would be like, the more, I think, we shall see His wisdom. —from “ ‘The Trouble with “X,” ’ ” God in the Dock”
― C.S. Lewis, NRSV, The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration