I’m an Independent and don’t love this quote because it nails my politics, but because picturing Reagan saying it is so darn funny to me: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant, its just that they know so much that isn’t so.” ~Ronald Reagan Absolutely classic.
“Private lives are more important than public reputation.” G.K. Chesterton in The Innocence of Father Brown
Here’s a G.K. Chesterton quote I had in my sermon notes this morning, but decided not to use. One of my favorites!
I’ve been enjoying getting ready for Easter Sunday tomorrow. So much rich tradition… Along those lines, here are a couple Easter quotes from some key figures in church history:
“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This morning, I read a bunch of quotes on church unity my good friend, Ed Underwood, has been posting over the last few weeks on his Twitter account. Here’s the list – it’s pretty legit! We are born to make it all about me and reborn to make it about others. Biblical unity requires Christlike
I had meant to reference this brief quote from C.S. Lewis during my message at Antioch this past Sunday, but somehow forgot. I figured I’d post it here and leave the unpacking to the reader: “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
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Someone reminded me today of this quote from C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity: “The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if
Tamara is reading through C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicle’s of Narnia and came across this passage that I marked years ago in The Magician’s Nephew. We must go back a bit and explain what the whole scene had looked like from Uncle Andrew’s point of view. It had not made at all the same impression on
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Check out what Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, writes about the diminishing appreciation for literature in her time. I couldn’t help thinking that the same line of reasoning could be applied to the decline of appreciation for “church” within the Christian community in our time. It is amazing how we ride the tides
