We Are Starving For Wonder
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. — G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1910), 7.
Category: Quotes
“But Miss Mills was praying, and the Word of God was working…”
God picked out a couple of schoolteachers, Miss Mills and Miss Thomas, to have a large part in my coming to Christ. Miss Mills was a general science teacher, an...
How to Know Who Your Master Is
Many men turn aside from religion when their interest would be compromised. If I see two men walking together I cannot tell who is the master of the dog that is...
Exercised to the Fullest Extent
We are always liable to distort emphases. Out of deference to all the stress that falls upon God’s agency in sanctification we must not fall into the erro...
“He Insists on Being a Christian All the Time”
God has always had His specialists whose chief concern has been the moral breakdown, the decline in the spiritual health of the nation or the church. Such men w...
When We Are Weak
See the contrary disposition of Christ on the one hand and Satan and his instruments on the other. Satan sets upon us when we are weakest, as Simeon and Levi up...
The Provision of Love
The propitiation of the divine wrath, effected in the expiatory work of Christ, is the provision of God’s eternal and unchangeable love, so that through the pro...
A Capacity For Wonder
Once a student met with him to complain about having to read Augustine’s Confessions. “It’s boring,” the student whined. “No, it&#...
Of Making Many Books
I was standing in Daedalus Books in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I had recently read Mortimer J. Adler’s How to Read a Book. I was alive with the desire to re...
God Saves Sinners
God: the Triune Jehovah, Father, Son and Spirit; three Persons working together in sovereign wisdom, power and love to achieve the salvation of a chosen people,...