Noah

“In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done. . . . With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means. . . . The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“In those days,” Ruth-Alice recalled, “the Nazis were always marching and saying, ‘The future belongs to us! We are the future!’ And we young ones who were against Hitler and the Nazis would hear this and we wondered, ‘Where is our future?’ But there in Finkenwalde, when I heard this man preaching, who had been captured by God, I thought: ‘Here. Here is our future.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Feelings of guilt will never motivate anyone to spend more time with God; in actuality, they will discourage you and make you feel like a failure. Guilt has the potential to totally snuff out whatever small flame there presently might be.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place