christopher

“Jesus said “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). Those are strong words. What does it mean to ‘hate’? To hate is the same as to kill (1 John 3:15). What we are asked to put to death here is the natural affection that we have for our relatives.”
― Zac Poonen, Practical Discipleship: The Christian Attitude to Earthly Matters

“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse.”
― John Mason, Believe You Can: The Power of a Positive Attitude

“And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree”
― Anonymous

“God may allow us to use some of those things. But we cannot think of them as our own any more. Even if we are living in our own house, we must consider the house as God’s; and that He has allowed us to stay in it rent-free! This is true discipleship.”
― Zac Poonen, Practical Discipleship: The Christian Attitude to Earthly Matters