discipleship

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" _ a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.