Elyshia

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
― John MacArthur

“That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan