Jonathan Adams

“Patience involves the capacity to bear with annoyances and to endure delays to our timetable.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“I learned that we must always pray, even and especially when we don’t feel like it or when it feels compulsory and rote and dry.”
― Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness

“Strong, negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety, hopelessness) tend to narrow our minds—it’s as though our peripheral vision has been cut off because we’re so focused on the peril that’s front and center.”
― Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success

“You see, the center of Christianity has always been Jesus Christ. It is not the Bible. It is not expository preaching. It is not a personal response to the gospel message. As important as all of these are for supporting the center, the focal point of right Christian faith is God the Son who became man, lived a life of perfect righteousness, revealed the Father, died for our sins, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, bequeathed the Spirit, and will come again.”
― Michael J. Svigel, RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith