Tina Williams

“To know what thinking men and women have felt and seen and imagined through all the ages of the world. To meet my natural companions among the mighty dead. To walk with them in conversation. To know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we’ve become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us. Individuals just as real as you and me, they fought over each new idea and died to give life to the dreams we live in. Some of them—a lot of them—wasted their days following error down nowhere roads. Some hacked their way through jungles of suffering to collapse in view of some far-off golden city of the imagination. But all the thoughts we think—all the high towers of the mind’s citadel—were sculpted out of shapeless nothing through the watches of their uncertain nights. Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“If you are a craftsman you will find the Bible placed in your workshop, in your hands, in your heart; it teaches and preaches how you ought to treat your neighbor. Only look at your tools, your needle, your thimble, your beer barrel, your articles of trade, your scales, your measures, and you will find this saying written on them…“use me toward your neighbor as you would want him to act toward you with that which is his.” MARTIN LUTHER”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“We live surrounded by darkness in a world that is desperate for something excellent and true. There is perhaps no more influential sphere of life for us to shine the light of Christ than in our chosen work.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“Indeed, Father, your decrees are not rules by which I earn anything from you; they are the wisdom by which I learn about everything from you. Holy Spirit, I gratefully and expectantly ask you to keep me in this journey and joy of gospel freedom, even this one day. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Scotty Smith, Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith