"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy."
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Posted 8, April, 2013

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. By D. A. Carson

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Posted 6, April, 2013

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. By C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

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Posted 31, March, 2013

Grace is not an idea.
It’s not a concept.
It’s not a principle.
Grace is more a person than a principle.
The reason grace has been abused is because we’ve left it merely as a principle and as long as grace is a concept, a principle, an idea, it’s easily abused and misused. But when you look into the eyes of Grace and you meet Grace and when you embrace Grace and you see the nail prints in Grace’s hands and you see the fire in His eyes and His hair like wool and you feel His love, you feel His relentless love for you that never ends and never stops; I’m telling you, it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness. By Judah Smith (via suntanintexas)