Philip

“Nobody told you what a drag it was, getting older. Or at least, people did tell you, but you ignored them, because they were old.”
― Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

“Do today’s Marxist activists have any reason to say they hate above anyone else in the world the church leaders most celebrated by our cultural elites? Or do they find that these shepherds not only don’t hinder, but even help their cause?”
― Megan Basham, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

“And the Lamb of God not only did this, but was chastised on our behalf, and suffered a penalty He did not owe, but which we owed because of the multitude of our sins; and so He became the cause of the forgiveness of our sins, because He received death for us, and transferred to Himself the scourging, the insults, and the dishonour, which were due to us, and drew down on Himself the apportioned curse, being made a curse for us.”
― Eusebius, The Proof of the Gospel: Two Volumes in One

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God’s wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment