“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
“Preaching is compelling to young secular adults not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon’s reasoning, even if in the end they don’t agree with it.”
― Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
― Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
“One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.”
― The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century
― The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century
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