Monday, November 8, 2010

"I spent two or three hours in one of the loveliest places, and with one of the loveliest families, in the kingdom.  How willingly could I have accepted the invitation to spend a few days here!  Nay, at present I must be about my Father's business: But I trust to meet them in a still lovelier place." ---John Wesley, Monday May 22, 1775

"The Church is never true to itself when it is living for itself, for if it is chiefly concerned with saving its own life, it will lose it.  The nature of the Church is such that it must always be engaged in finding new ways by which to transcend itself. Its main responsibility is always outside its own walls in the redemption of common life.  That is why we call it a redemptive society." ---Elton Trueblood in The Company of the Committed

"If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what transpires in other souls so that you will never be surprised at what you come across." ---Oswald Chambers