C.S LEWIS

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

CHANGE

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

SURRENDER

SURRENDER. THE HARDEST & MOST GLORIOUS THING THAT WERE.


“Give me all of you.
I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work.
I want YOU! All of you!
I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out. Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self—-in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”

— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

THE GOSPEL

‘if the gospel of jesus is just some formula i obey in order to get taken off the naughty list and put on a nice list, then it doesnt meet the deep need of the human condition. it doesnt interact with the great desire of my soul and it has nothing to do with the hidden language we are all speaking. but if it is more, if it is a story about humanity falling away from the community that named it, and an attempt to bring humanity back to that community, and if it more then a series of ideas, but rather speaks directly into this basic human need we are feeling, then the gospel of jesus is the most relevant message in the history of mankind.’
Donald Miller- Searching For God Knows What