Nathan Long

“Part of the point of spiritual formation is training our eyes to see and our ears to hear God in the world, and learning to sing along with creation. That requires changing our tune. We can’t join in God’s symphony if we’re singing our own songs. To hear his song, we must begin with silence and tune our hearts to the notes. As we do, we find ourselves increasingly aligning with the work of God.”
― Glenn Packiam, The Intentional Year: Simple Rhythms for Finding Freedom, Peace, and Purpose

“There is a war raging between good and evil in our world, and though we might prefer the conflict to be fought somewhere else, we don’t get to pick the times in which we live. The front lines today are battles over sex, gender, and identity. We must be ready for a fight in precisely these places. Don’t underestimate the power of your opponent. The devil wants us to join him in his rebellion against God. He wants to make us cowards and traitors. He wants us to believe the myth of our own autonomy. He wants us to raise the white flag and side with the enemy—the enemy without or the enemy within, it doesn’t matter to him.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“One of the chief values of old literature lies in its ability to challenge some of the assumptions that we take for granted as self-evidently correct, but which are actually culturally situated, and will one day seem strange to future generations.”
― Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: His Life and Thought

“This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God