Brad Green

“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on the pleasures but toward their Maker.3 Otherwise, the things that please you will cause you to displease. Love those souls that please you, but love them in God.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version

“It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

“The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath