Our Power Center
We can choke God's word with a yawn; we can hinder the time that should be spent with God by remembering we have other things to do. "I haven't time!" Of course you have time! Take time, strangle some other interests and make time to realize that the centre of power in your life is the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement.

—Oswald Chambers in
Run Today's Race

The Soul's True Home
Prayer is not a strategem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home; the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home. Weary, sobbing, the soul, after roaming through a world festered with aimlessness, falsehoods, and absurdities, seeks a moment in which to gather up its scattered life, in which to divest itself of enforced pretensions and camouflage, in which to simplify complexities, in which to call for help without being a coward. Such a home is prayer.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel in
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

We Need More of God
I want to simplify your lives. When others are telling you to read more, I want to tell you to read less; when others are telling you to do more, I want to tell you to do less. The world does not need more of you; it needs more of God. Your friends do not need more of you; they need more of God. And you don't need more of you; you need more of God.

—Eugene H. Peterson in
Subversive Spirituality

All Is Vanity
The world passes away with all its concupiscence and deceitful pleasure.

—Thomas a Kempis in
The Imitation of Christ

Road to Unbelief
What a man does not want to believe, he can find a way to deny.

—Michael ...