Hoyt

“Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“there is a simple, straightforward way in which congregations of Jesus’ people can, without exception, fulfill his call to be an ecclesia, his “called out” ones: a touch point between heaven and earth, where the healing of the Cross and the Resurrection can save the lost and grow the saved into the fullness of human beings in Christ.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ with Bonus Content

“the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our “spiritual” side.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ with Bonus Content