Joan

“He was an extraordinary man: talented, flawed, a creative genius who sang movingly about love while often wounding those closest to him.”
― Cynthia Lennon, John: The bestselling classic written by Beatles legend John Lennon's first wife Cynthia

“Christ was not crucified so that we wouldn’t have to be. He was crucified so we could be crucified with him.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“It is not by reading the Scriptures in the original languages or in some contemporary version that makes us better Christians. Rather, it is getting on our knees with the Scriptures spread before us, and allowing the Spirit of God to break our hearts. Then, when we have been thoroughly broken before God Almighty, we get up off our knees, go out into the world and proclaim the glorious message of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“Be sure that at the root of all real experience of more grace, of all true advance in consecration, of all actually increasing conformity to the likeness of Jesus, there must be a deadness to self that proves itself to God and men in our dispositions and habits.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility