John MILLER

“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...”
― Douglas Wilson

“In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat