Martina Pook

“The door of pride looks like a royal promotion, but it leads into a prison cell. The door of humility looks like a restriction, but it opens up into an eternal horizon of freedom.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“What if a childlike curiosity and wonder and openness were to mark our living, rather than a settled sense of self-assurance? It may seem counterintuitive, but Christian growth is a gradual downward movement toward the maturity of childlikeness.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Every Christian, to some degree, is a recovering control freak. It is only when we come to the place of accepting our rightful role as creature rather than Creator, servant rather than Master, child rather than Father, that we find the rest we most long for.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”
― C.S. Lewis