Item Of The Day

All of our actions, to be acceptable to God, must be done out of a sense of devotion to God.

Jerry Bridges
The Fruitful Life, p.15

Scythed grass keeps back nettles, just as tending a garden allows it to flourish. Leave it alone, and the weeds are bound to grow. What is true of gardens is also true of one’s character: spiritual discipline and exercise allow us to mow the nettles of the soul and pull weeds from our character. Sometimes painful experiences are a necessary part of the maturation process.

The Soul of C.S. Lewis, p.52

All joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire from something longer ago or further away or still “about to be.”

C.S. Lewis
Surprised By Joy

The Lord knows what he is doing with his own, and he has left no aspect of our need unmet in his Cross, that the glory of the Son may be manifested in the sons.

Watchman Nee
The Normal Christian Life (p.265)

Every virtue has its origin in Christ.

Ambrose

The life of Christ has been planted in us by new birth and its nature is not to commit sin. But there is a great difference between the nature and the history of a thing, and there is a great difference between the nature of the life within us and our history.

Watchman Nee
The Normal Christian Life

Truly, life is too short to be an apologist for anything but the Gospel.

David Alan Black (NT/Greek Prof at SEBTS)

HT: RDTWOT

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Martin Luther