“We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.”
― The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
― The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
“While few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a sort of decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that makes up for the paltry lack of evidence for what one is trying to believe. By contrast, biblical faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in and commitment to what we have reason to believe is true.”
― Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics
― Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics
“Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.”
― The Pursuit of God.
― The Pursuit of God.
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