Christina

“Is it possible to worry about our past? For sure. It’s called regret. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote, “The past cannot be recalled and you can do nothing about it. You can sit down and be miserable and you can go round and round in circles of regret for the rest of your life but it will make no difference to what you have done. . . . We must never for a second worry about anything that cannot be affected or changed by us. It is a waste of energy.”1 Sometimes we waste a lot of time and energy worrying about our past failures. But if we have repented and sought forgiveness from God—and from other people, where possible (see Rom. 12:18)—we need to be actively “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead” (Phil. 3:13).”
― Paul Tautges, Anxiety: Knowing God's Peace

“The gospel message hurts our pride in life-giving ways, and for that I praise God.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Never could there be a better Master, for there is freedom in His service, and His rule is love.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Evening by Evening: Daily Devotional Readings

“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!'

I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

I liked white better,' I said.

White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.'

In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf”
― J.R.R. Tolkien