“There is nothing I fear as much as idleness - unemployment - inertia - lethargy of the faculties - when the body is idle, the spirit suffers cruelly”
“If you're feeling lousy and you sin in an attempt to feel better, whatever pain you're feeling right now will still be there tomorrow morning, only worse.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“as soon as you eat the fruit and hit guilt, shame, frustration, the Enemy changes roles. He shifts from being the enticer and promiser to becoming the accuser and the condemner.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Condemnation comes from guilt.
Conviction is born out of grace.
Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin.
Conviction urges you to confess it.
Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did).
Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way).
Condemnation prompts you to rededicate.
Conviction demands full surrender.
Condemnation is a path to future failure.
Conviction is a highway to real change.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Your guilt is never removed when you hide. It's only when you bring your guilt into the spotlight of Christ's grace that your sins are atoned for and your guilt is removed. In Jesus' holy, loving, and kind presence, you can say, 'Lord, I confess that I've done some wrong things. I also want to let You know that some wrong things have been done to me. These things have made me feel marred. Damaged. Hurt. I've been both a perpetrator of sin and a victim of sin. But I want Your forgiveness and Your freedom. I don't want to hide from You. I want Your eyes to see all that I've done and all that's been done to me. By Your work, the effects of sin are cancelled. By Your stripes I am healed.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Kaz knew it, and for some reason he loved to rile her. He wished he could read her expression now. There was always something so satisfying about the little furrow between her black brows.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Sin is what was done to you, or sometimes it's what you did, but sin is not who you are.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Did money talk louder than intelligence and refinement in the seventeenth century? Probably. Why was it that the things her own time had in common with this slice of the past were mostly the things everyone would be better off without? Were people only capable of passing on the worst of themselves to future generations?”
Source: The Little Shop of Found Things
“In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his “bad desires” as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.”
Source: L'Unique et sa proprlete
“The choices that we have made created most of the burdens that we bear. And it is not until our burdens have begun to break us that we begin to understand that we have never stood more than one choice away from being freed from every single one of them. And that dynamic perfectly illustrates the stubbornness of man as held against the love of God.”