"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
-Detective Lt. William Somerset (Se7en)
If Christianity should happen to be true, then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.
“That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
#CSLewis
The Great Divorce
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work."
#CSLewis
World, you're broken and perishing. I wish you could feel it. World, there's an answer for all the meaninglessness and horror of life. I wish you could know it. Oh, with all I am, how I wish you could know it. 💔
“If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness…though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.”
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“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.”
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The Bible itself gives us one short prayer which is suitable for all who are struggling with beliefs…
‘LORD I believe, help Thou my unbelief.'
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"Nobody was expecting rewards would have a negative effect."
-Edward Deci, from Drive, by Dan Pink
Live your life connected to the deeper why of your actions, and you will never lose motivation when the rewards run out and you face push back for doing what you know is right.
Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours…Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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“He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.”
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The Weight of Glory