Josh Collins

“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

“But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.”
― Dan B. Allender, The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse