Is everything sad going to come untrue? – J.R.R Tolkien
Quotes
Chrysostom
“Yet those that be against us, so far are they from thwarting us at all, that even without their will they become to us the causes of crowns, and procurers of countless blessings, in that God’s wisdom turneth their plots unto our salvation and glory. See how really no one is against us” -Chrysostom
Bunyan
Run, John, run, the law commands
But gives us neither feet nor hands,Far better news the gospel brings:
It bids us fly and gives us wings.-John Bunyan (probably)
Dietrich Advent Thought
“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Ravi Thoughts
“Jesus Christ did not come to make bad people good, he came to make dead people live!” – Ravi Zacharias