Kyle Ryun

“To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.”
― William Barclay, The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C

“The gospel is the announcement that God has fulfilled the promise of Scriptures to make the world right in Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:1-11). Christ has died for our sins. By his death and resurrection (and ascension), he has defeated the effects of our sins, including death itself. He now sits at the right hand of the Father ruling over the world. In Christ the new creation has begun. Old things are passing away. Behold, the new has begun (2 Cor 5:17). All who respond to this good news repent of the old ways, and make Jesus their Lord and Savior, enter in and become part of what God is doing to reconcile the whole world to himself (2 Cor 5:18-19), and receive power to become the children of God (Jn 1:12). This in one paragraph is the gospel.”
― David E. Fitch

“I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy