Siya Mabena
http://www.siyamabena.co.za
A word of commendation from Christ is the ultimate commendation for our servant-hood. Every Christian longs to hear a certain phrase at the end of his life, words that will come from the mouth of Christ: “Well done, good and faithful
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“Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist.
We are one long frightening climax.”
― Gone Girl
We are one long frightening climax.”
― Gone Girl
“Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son, and Spirit”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging with Bonus Content
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging with Bonus Content
“I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
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