If you want to live like Francis [of Assisi], you had better not be married. If you are married, you’d better not live like Francis.
Richard Foster, The Freedom of Simplicity
If you want to live like Francis [of Assisi], you had better not be married. If you are married, you’d better not live like Francis.
Richard Foster, The Freedom of Simplicity
Holy is the most intimately divine word in the Bible. It is that in God which marks him off as God. To say that he is holy is to say that he is God. Holiness, in Scripture, is the fundamental attribute of God that conditions and qualifies all other attributes.
Tom Trevethan, The Beauty of God’s Holiness, p. 13
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2
Stop licking Baby Jesus.
Most professors would like their students to be more rebellious and argumentative. But rebellion without a rigorous alternative vision is just a feeble spasm.
David Brooks, “How to Fight the Man.”