Tuesday, October 19, 2010

"The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on.  The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights." ---Oswald Chambers




 "I visited as many as I could of the sick.  How much better is it, when it can be done, to carry relief to the poor, than to send it!  And that both for our own sake and theirs.  For theirs, as it is so much more comfortable to them and as we may then assist them in spirituals as well as temporals; and for our own, as it is far more apt to soften our heart, and to make us naturally care for each other." ---John Wesley, Monday, November 24, 2010

"Approach the Scriptures not so much as a manual of Christian principles but as the testimony of God's friends on what it means to walk with him through a thousand different episodes.  When you are at war, when you are in love, when you have sinned, when you have been given a great gift—this is how you walk with God.  Do you see what a different mind-set this is?  It's really quite exciting." ---John Eldredge in Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive