Seemingly Random Thoughts

"you never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be." (Gabrielle Beaty)

"All great life is the product of a great purpose taking hold of the personality and sinking our selfishness out of sight... Some cause must dissolve you, melt you, move you, burn in you, if you are going to do anything in this world." (Daniel Clark Knowles, "Lofty Purposes" from Chapel Talks)

"It's not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting but that it has been found hard and not tried."
(GK Chesterton)

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
(Antoine de Saint Exupery)

"Every generation must have its own confrontation with God."

"²²Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. ²³For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you." (Acts 17)

"¹³When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" ¹⁴They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." ¹⁵"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" ¹⁶Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."" (Matthew 16)

"In the Bible we do not see man groping after God; we see God reaching after man." (John R.W. Stott)

"We know that to find God and to accept Jesus Christ would be a very inconvenient experience. It would involve the rethinking of our whole outlook on life and the readjustment of our whole manner of life. And it is a combination of intellectual and moral cowardice which makes us hesitate. We do not find because we do not seek. We do not seek because we do not want to find, and we know that the way to be certain of not finding is not to seek." (John R. W. Stott)