Michael Turley

“The little kingdom promises life, but brings you death; the big kingdom requires your death, but gives you life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Let them shun the immodest music and dancing that are currently so fashionable. I am aware that many people think me ridiculous for giving such advice; but if you listen to me, you will understand the advantages of a sober life-style more and more as time goes on. You will no longer laugh at me, but will laugh instead at the way people live now like silly children or drunken men. What is our duty, then? Remove from your lives shameful, immodest, and Satanic music, and don't associate with people who enjoy such profligate entertainment.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Ultimate Early Church Collection: including The Imitation of Christ, On the Incarnation, Augustine's Confessions, Apologies, Dialogues, Letters & any ... Spurgeon, Tozer & Puritan Classics)

“When the Creator gives His creature the power of thirst, it is because water exists to meet its thirst. When He creates hunger, there is food to correspond to the appetite. Even so, when He inclines men to pray, it is because prayer has a corresponding blessing connected with it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare: Six Books in One

“If the glory of God is reflected in all of creation, if the effects of sin reach to all of creation, and if the goal of redemption is to restore all of creation, then what should you and I care about? EVERYTHING! Your sadness with sin should be bigger than the fact that it complicates your life. Your sadness should extend as far as sin reaches. Your celebration of God’s restoring grace should be bigger than the fact that it brings blessing to your private world. No, your celebration should reach as far as restoration is needed. God’s grace really does welcome you to think big and live large. God invites you to be an active and daily part of the “more” of redemption. His restoring grace gives you reason to extend the boundaries of your concern way beyond the borders of your own life. He calls you out of your little kingdom to give your talents, gifts, resources, and time to the glorious concerns of his big sky kingdom.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You