Josh Cox

“A problem can’t be solved by the same consciousness that created it.”
― Judson Brewer, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
― Gertrude Stein

“We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances”
― Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God’s grace takes place. Insofar as human pride may win the battle, religion can and does become one of the instruments of human sin. But insofar as there the self does meet God and so can surrender to something beyond its own self-interest, religion may provide the one possibility for a much needed and very rare release from our common self-concern.23”
― Timothy J. Keller, Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World