Archive for Quotes
Being the Right Person in Marriage
Posted by: | CommentsIn light of some of my answers from the interview yesterday, I found this quote to be encouraging:
“The key to finding the right mate is being the right person. I don’t want to make this process sound like it’s simple, but it certainly isn’t as difficult as most people make it. Once again, our culture takes something that God meant to be a rewarding part of everyone’s life and complicates it beyond logic. Many people seem to be bent on finding a mate who meets their expectations and complements their ego needs. This selfish approach to marriage is part of the reason we have such staggering divorce statistics. The key to making this decision well is not to much in finding the person who can complete us but in becoming the kind of person who automatically makes the one we marry much more valuable.” -Tim Kimmel in “Raising Kids for True Greatness“
I pray Joe and I would make one another more valuable and you would do that for your spouse as well!
Spotlight Saturday: A Gospel Primer for Christians
Posted by: | CommentsA Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to see the Glories of God’s Love is a great tool for your quiet times with the Lord. As C.S. Lewis said, “We need to be reminded more than instructed” and this book is a great tool for reminding us about the greatness of the gospel. We can never hear the message enough that
“we are more wicked than we ever dared believe, but more loved and accepted in Christ than we ever dared hope — at the very same time”
- Tim Keller
This is the message of the gospel that in our sin, Jesus came and died for us to reconcile us to God for all eternity!
G.K. Chesterton Quote on Humility
Posted by: | CommentsJoe reminded me of this quote last night and I thought it too good not to quote for others:
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert–himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason. . . . The new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn. . . . There is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it’s practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic. . . . The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which makes him stop working altogether. . . . We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy [Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1957], pp. 31-32
I pray I would be a woman who is strong in her convictions, yet humble in my own abilities.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:12b-13
