If you want to build a boat
“If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”
— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
“If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”
— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Jesus Christ died for you precisely because you are sinful and utterly unworthy of him, and has thereby already made you his own before and apart from your ever believing in him.
“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”
– Jean Piaget
“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us…
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
“As, then, the creatures whom he had created . . . were in fact perishing, and such noble works were on the road to ruin, what then was God, being Good, to do? Was he to let corruption and death have their way with them? In that case, what was the use of having made them in the beginning . . . It was impossible, therefore, that God should leave man to be carried off by corruption, because it would be unfitting and unworthy of Himself.”
– Athanasius
“Love is something one person has for another person. If God was a single person before the world was made, He was not love.”
– C. S. Lewis
“Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.”
– George MacDonald
“A gyerekekkel való minden érintkezésünk indítéka és legfőbb célja maga a kapcsolat legyen, nem a viselkedésük.”
– Dr. Gordon Neufeld
“I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness.”
– C. S. Lewis
“What we could not do for ourselves, God has done for us. He has put us into Christ. Let me remind you of 1 Corinthians 1:30. I think that is one of the best verses of the whole New Testament: ‘Ye are in Christ.’ How? Of him [that is, ‘of God’] are ye in Christ.’ Praise God! It is not left to us either to devise a way of entry or to work it out. We need not plan how to get in. God has planned it; and he has not only planned it but he has also performed it. ‘Of him are ye in Christ Jesus.’ We are in; therefore we need not try to get in. It is a divine act, and it is accomplished.”
– Watchman Nee
“It is the ‘inclusive’ death of the Lord which puts me in a position to identify myself, not that I identify myself in order to be included. It is God’s inclusion of me in Christ that matters.”
– Watchman Nee
“I am dead and buried with Christ, and risen too, and ascended…. God reckons me so, and tells me to reckon myself so. He knows best…. Oh, the joy of seeing this truth – I do pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened, that you may know and enjoy the riches freely given to us in Christ.”
– Hudson Taylor
“That Christ has died is a fact, that the two thieves have died is a fact, and that you have died is a fact also. Let me tell you, You have died! You are done with! You are ruled out! The self you loathe is on the Cross in Christ. And ‘he that is dead is freed from sin.'”
– Watchman Nee
“He was crucified: then what about us? Must we ask God to crucify us? Never! When Christ was crucified we were crucified; and his crucifixion is past, therefore ours cannot be future.”
– Watchman Nee
“It was unworthy of the goodness of God that the creature made by Him should be brought to nothing through the deceit wrought upon man by the devil; and it was supremely unfitting that the work of God in mankind should disappear, either through their own negligence or through the deceit of evil spirits. As, then, the creatures whom He had created … were on the road to ruin, what then was God, being good, to do? Was He to let corruption and death have their way with them?”
– Athanasius
“Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?”
“Because it is there.”
– George Mallory
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
– Virginia Woolf
“The Gospel is: you’re saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone. It does not remain alone, but issues forth the holiness of life.”
– Tim Keller