Erin

“You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day (Dallas Willard qtd. in Ortberg)”
― Ortberg John

“Grace is easy. Life is hard. So follow Jesus if you must, seek the face of God if you must, but don't be surprised if, after a while, it feels like you've been battling angels in the darkness. Seeking God's face in a fallen world is not the easy life; it's the good life, and a good life is always a life of worthwhile stories and worthwhile struggles.”
― Mike Cosper, Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World

“Everything we say, do, and think, aligns us with darkness or light, love or grievance. Thus everything is a spiritual practice, whether we are aware of it or not. We are constantly, in every moment, aligning with one way of being or another. The choice is ours to make each moment of the day.”
― Ted Dekker, The Forgotten Way Meditations: The Path of Yeshua for Power and Peace in This Life

“God's wrath, properly, is an aspect of his love: it is because God loves human beings with a steady, unquenchable passion that he hated Apartheid, that he hates torture and cluster bombs, that he loathes slavery, that his wrath is relentless against the rich who oppress the poor. If God was not wrathful against these and so many other distortions of our human vocation, he is not loving. And it is his love, determining to deal with that nasty, insidious, vicious, soul-destroying evil, that causes him to send his only, special son.”
― N.T. Wright, Lent for Everyone: Mark Year B