“But the pleasure he must be content only to remember?” “That is like saying, ‘My food I must be content only to eat.’ ” “I do not understand.” “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmn, as if the pleasure
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“When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“Daily I have asked Him to feed me from His Word, and there has always been bread in the cupboard.”
― Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ
― Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ

“The “who” question does not seek answers from God as much as it seeks God himself. The one who asks who seeks to grow in deeper understanding of who God is and who we are, because when we’re suffering, what we need more than answers—even helpful, biblical ones—is God and an assurance of our identity in Christ.”
― Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ
― Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ

“If there are any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place!”
― Spurgeon Gems
― Spurgeon Gems

“Remember that, as George Whitefield said, man is immortal till his work is done (though God alone defines the work), and get on with what you know to be God’s task for you here and now.”
― 18 Words: The most important words you will ever know
― 18 Words: The most important words you will ever know
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