Making me think

I have been reading some stuff over the past monthish that has made me really stop and think, reflect, pray, hurt, feel conviction, want to be different -- so, I invite you to think, not for the sake of knowledge-- but for the sake of holiness.

If obedience to the will of God be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbor as himself. He that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. – Samuel Johnson


The problem of unholy living does not stem from the fact that we desire to use money and time wisely, but fail due to weaknesses of human nature. The problem is that we do not intend to be as responsible and devout as we can. – William Law

No one can fully understand the meaning of singleness as male and female in God's image until they learn from Christ that in the age to come there will be no marriage, and therefore the glorious destiny of being male and female in God's image is not dependent on marriage, but on devotion to the Lord. - John Piper

Rescuing love reaches out to the world. Perhaps there is no more certain mark of a mature spirituality than the way in which those who possess it are able to enter a troubled situation and say, “Peace,” or turn from the exercise of heroic love to meet the humblest needs of men. – Evelyn Underhill

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless. - Cloud & Townsend (from Boundaries ... I seriously doubt that there is anyone who would not benefit from reading this book -- at least once)