All too easily, and all too unnoticed, our busyness pushes others away from us, and us away from God.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
Category: PASSION Quotes
Classic Quote
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
– Jonathan Edwards
Classic Quote
I wish my brothers and sisters, that during this year you may live nearer to Christ than you have ever done before.
– Charles Spurgeon
Your Story
God is not just a chapter in the story of your life, he’s the author of your story, the one who makes sense of all the chapters of your life.
– Trevin Wax and Thomas West in The Gospel Way Catechism
Theology Is An Invitation
Theology isn’t an arduous task of arranging irrelevant details. It’s an invitation into greater knowledge of this Jesus who has saved us.
– Trevin Wax in The Thrill of Orthodoxy
An Act of Resistance
Sabbath rest…says that I don’t need to justify my own existence. It’s an act of resistance against the false god-king of this world who always demands that we do. It’s open rebellion against the systems of this world that demand we do in order to be.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
A Lurking Fear
You and I are still tempted by idolatry – and we still commit acts of idolatry. And that is because there still lurks in us a fear that something or someone else can meet our needs and satisfy our desires better than God can.
– Michael Horton in Recovering Our Sanity
What We Fear
Fear really is worship – we fear what we believe is ultimate, what we think has the last word over our lives.
– Michael Horton in Recovering Our Sanity
Classic Quote
I have a great need for Christ;
I have a great Christ for my need.
– Charles Spurgeon
Eden Longing
Prayer is our response to the echoes of Eden where we long to walk with God in the cool of the day.
– Philip Nation in Habits for Our Holiness
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