Chris

“A common image of hell in the Bible is that of fire.10 Fire disintegrates. Even in this life we can see the kind of soul disintegration that self-centeredness creates. We know how selfishness and self-absorption leads to piercing bitterness, nauseating envy, paralyzing anxiety, paranoid thoughts, and the mental denials and distortions that accompany them. Now ask the question: “What if when we die we don’t end, but spiritually our life extends on into eternity?” Hell, then, is the trajectory of a soul, living a self-absorbed, self-centered life, going on and on forever.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“the more children knew about their family history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and the more successfully they believed their families functioned.” In fact, the “How much do you know about your family?” scale turned out to be the best single predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness. Dr. Duke went on to explain, however, it wasn’t just honesty about a family’s troubled narrative that fueled a child’s health. It was actually what he called the oscillating family narrative that is the true story about how the family both succeeds and fails and yet stays together regardless.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, “Don, all relationships are teleological.” I asked him what the word teleological meant. “It means they’re going somewhere,” Al said. “All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity