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)

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. The”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“It is his honor and glory that I live for. I no longer live, decide, act, and relate for the purposes of my own glory.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You