Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. — St. Augustine
Instructional
We’re here to know God
We’re here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. — Anne Lamott
We are all desperate
We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. — Philip Yancey
Nothing can be more cruel
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
All around you
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe. — Shane Claiborne
The gospel is absurd
The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. — Brennan Manning
