Amanda Harris

“Maybe churches are filled with hypocrites because you are not there. Or maybe churches are filled with hypocrites because you are there in pride and in self-promotion. Here’s my challenge to you: for those with church ties, start going to church in honest vulnerability.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith

“The essence of this matter is to understand that this self of ours, this other man within us, has got to be handled. Do not listen to him; turn on him; speak to him; condemn him; upbraid him; exhort him; encourage him; remind him of what you know, instead of listening placidly to him and allowing him to drag you down and depress you. For that is what he will always do if you allow him to be in control. The devil takes hold of self and uses it in order to depress us. We must stand up as this man did and say: ‘Why art thou cast down? Why art thou disquieted within me?’ Stop being so! ‘Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance,’ He, ‘who is the health of my countenance and my God.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

“As I turn to look at him what I see on his face is empathy and maybe a tinge of regret, reflected in those mysterious green eyes flecked with a hint of grey. ‘Sometimes life’s hurdles aren’t easy to jump. It’s a case of learning how to survive the fall really.’ There’s sadness and pain in his voice. ‘Was it that bad?’ ‘Bad enough. Anyway, it’s time to head back or we’ll find ourselves walking in the pitch black.”
― Lucy Coleman, The French Adventure