I love quotes..soundbites...well-crafted/articulated nuggets of truth. That is why I truly enjoy reading Philip Yancey who quotes regularly from literary greats. I'm using his bk as part of my devotion....and these are some powerful quotes that impacted me. I'm collecting them here more for myself to reflect on...and so i don't hv to keep searching for them.
"All for love, a Father gave
For only love could make a way
All for love, the heavens cried for love was crucified"
-Mia Fieldes 'All for love'-
That's from the new hillsong album. I'm planning to use that song in one of my vocal modules. Really find it very ministering. Reminds me how incredible and awesome, and loving and beautiful our God is.
Ps Chris Chia from ARPC said this in his last sermon abt materialism.
"Which is more difficult?
For God to grant you your salvation,
or your daily bread?"
Wow! Simple but such a powerful truth. I love how he articulates things and puts them into perspective for you. Btw, his fav writer is Philip Yancey.
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"The only ultimate way to conquer evil to let it be smothered within a willing, living, human being. When it is absorbed there, like blood in a sponge or a spear thrown into one's heart, it loses its power and goes no further." - Gale D. Webbe, "The Night and Nothing"-
" To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now." -T.S Eliot-
"Everything difficult indicates something mroe than our theory of life yet embraces."- George MacDonald-
"Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken."- Rabbi Abraham Heschel-
"To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness--especially in the wilderness--you shall love him."
- Frederick Buechner-
"God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away."- Meister Eckhardt-
1 comment:
Yeah, tt last quote was my fav! :)
What on earth is PCC?
Check this out...it's realy funny. I posted it on an earlier blog entry:
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When "The Times" asked a number of writers for essays on the topic 'What's wrong with the world?' Chesterton sent in the reply shortest and most to the point:
Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely yours,
G.K Chesterton
[One of G.K Chesterton's strongest arguments in favour of Christianity is the failure of Christians, who thereby prove what the bible teaches about the Fall and the original sin. As the world goes wrong, it proves that the church is right in this basic doctrine]
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