Friday, November 19, 2010

"The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.  We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions.  Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited." ---Oswald Chambers

"If we were to take the idea of a militant company seriously, the church building would be primarily designed as a drill hall for the Christian task force.  It would be a place where Christian ambassadors in common life would come to be trained, to strengthen one another, and to find solitude when it is needed.  The building might reasonably resemble the plan of a small college, with much emphasis upon the Christian library, the book store, the seminar rooms.  It would be equipped with sleeping accommodations for the constant stream of visiting recruits and with an easily accessble quiet room.  It would be armory, arsenal, barracks, and college, all in one." ---Elton Trueblood in The Company of the Committed

"None of us, not even Jesus, is self-explanatory.  We are all interrelated, and the key to every person is in somebody else.  Your physical life started in somebody else's womb.  Your salvation began in somebody else's heart.  Every one of us is the result of somebody else's caring.  God became a human person for us, taking all of our sins into himself.  Are we willing to carry other people in our heart?" ---Dennis Kinlaw in This Day With the Master