"This is the fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless."
#CSLewis#MereChristianity
you ever hang out with people and think, “i really don’t deserve to have you in my life. but i am beyond words thankful that you are.” ?
those are the kinds of people i always want to be around.
The greatest nightmare of the approval addict is rejection; of the power addict, humiliation; of the comfort addict, suffering; and of the control addict, uncertainty.
Doing justice for our neighbors, whether they believe in Christ or not is, paradoxically, one of the best recommendations for the faith. Like Jesus, we must be mighty in both word and deed (Luke 24: 19).
Trouble can take anything away from you except God. Therefore, if God is to you a greater safety, a deeper security, and a more powerful hope than anything else in the world, you fear no trouble.
When the gospel has become bad news to the poor, to the oppressed, to the broken-hearted and imprisoned and good news to the proud, self-righteous and privileged instead, it is no longer the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.