Worship is...

"Worship is to quicken the conscience by the Holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God"

- William Temple

Changing the world

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

Seeing and Savouring Jesus Christ

"Christ does not exist in order to make much of us. We exist in order to enjoy making much of Him"

- John Piper, Seeing and Savouring Jesus Christ

Fruit of the Spirit?

"Over-intensity is not a fruit of the Spirit. Make sure you’re having fun."

- Al Gordon

Ministry

"Ministry is meeting the needs of the world on the basis of God’s resources, not our own"

- John Wimber

The life I'm supposedly leading

"I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading."

- Zach Braff

Weariness

"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."

- John Ruskin

Matters of style and matters of principle

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

- Thomas Jefferson

Deserving

"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

- Jack Benny

Where have I gone wrong?

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

- Charles M Schulz

The cost of non-discipleship

"Non-discipleship costs abiding peace, a life penetrated throughout by love, faith that sees everything in the light of God's overriding governance for good, hopefulness that stands firm in the most discouraging of circumstances, power to do what is right and withstand the forces of evil. In short, it costs exactly that abundance of life Jesus said he came to bring (John 10:10)."

Dallas Willard, Devotional Classics

Thinking and Living

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

- Alfred North Whitehead

Radicals and Conservatives

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them"

- Mark Twain

Traditions

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening"

- Barbara Tober