The large, “cosmic” questions of meaning that can see too “abstract” and “distant” in normal times will become very concrete and immediate when crisis hits.
Your actions most accurately reflect your deepest beliefs - those that are implicit, embedded in your being, underneath your conscious apprehensions and articulable attitudes and surface-level self-knowledge - JP
There is a power so fearful, strength so honourable and being so holy that you will be driven to despair knowing that you have not spent your life living for it
The mental game is where 85% of Christianity takes place. It’s not about learning 5 practical handy skills, it’s a mind game. A set of attitudes and ideas that shape why you do in the thousands of different situations you find yourself in.
Jesus was up against this: people’s failure to see things on more than one level.
Jesus and the Samaritan woman about water of life.
Jesus and the disciples about the bread of life.
We don’t always see very well.
… If we will only open our eyes to see.
- Elisabeth Elliot