Shane Goodyear

“You asked for my hands, that you might use them for your purpose. I gave them for a moment, then withdrew them, for the work was hard. You asked for my mouth to speak out against injustice. I gave you a whisper that I might not be accused. You asked for my eyes to see the pain of poverty. I closed them, for I did not want to see.”
― Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice

“I have not forgotten myself when, with fear and reverence, I say, We are, - are in the heart of God. We are, by his dignifying, not by our own dignity.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“we are not to look to what men in themselves deserve, but to attend to the image of God, which exists in all, and to which we owe all honour and love.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“More truly may we say, that the life of a Christian man is constant study and exercise in mortifying the flesh, until it is certainly slain, and the Spirit of God obtains dominion in us.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion