discipleship

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. _ Napoleon

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore _ yes, I do well.

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.