These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.
On a visit to Leningrad some years ago I consulted a map to find out where I was, but I could not make it out. From where I stood, I could see several enormous churches, yet there was no trace of them on my map. When finally an interpreter came to help me, he said: “We don’t show churches on our maps.” Contradicting him, I pointed to one that was very clearly marked. “That is a museum,” he said, “not what we call a ‘living church.’ It is only the ‘living churches’ we don’t show.”
It then occurred to me that this was not the first time I had been given a map which failed to show many things I could see right in front of my eyes. All through school and university I had been given maps of life and knowledge on which there was hardly a trace of many of the things that I most cared about and that seemed to me to be of the greatest possible importance to the conduct of my life. I remembered that for many years my perplexity had been complete; and no interpreter had come along to help me. It remained complete until I ceased to suspect the sanity of my perceptions and began, instead, to suspect the soundness of the maps.
The rich young ruler was willing to obey, but not to trust.
Nothing really good can be accomplished without genuine suffering. The higher the achievement, the higher the price. There is no greater thing than sanctity, and therefore one must be ready to pay the highest price.
To suppose that God would admit to His close friendship pleasure-loving people who want to be free from all trials is ridiculous.
Just a caveat...what if the people "who don't want to change" don't want to change not because they are entrenched in a static enviorment without the freedom to dialogue...but are resistant to changing core belifs because they've thought them through, weighed them in the filter of personal experience and good bible study and have come to the realization -- they don't want to change?
Does that just make them stupid because they don't want to change?