Ron Blake

“In the poor man who knocks at my door, in my ailing mother, in the young man who seeks my advice, the Lord himself is present. C. S. Lewis”
― Nelson Searcy, The Greatness Principle: Finding Significance and Joy by Serving Others

“When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turnoff. Christianity was always intended to be a verb. And, more specifically, an action verb. The title of the book of Acts says it all, doesn't it? It's not the book of Ideas or Theories or Words. It's the book of Acts. If the twenty-first-century church said less and did more, maybe we would have the same kind of impact the first-century church did.”
― Mark Batterson, Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God

“men have never seemed to object to women going off to difficult missionary assignments in the far corners of the earth. The matter of women preachers became a problem only when women wanted to be pastors back home, in the sometimes affluent neighborhoods that typically had churches pastored by men.”
― Alan F. Johnson, How I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership: Compelling Stories from Prominent Evangelicals

“Is this the very most important thing I should be doing with my time and resources right now?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less