“Set aside blocks of time in your diary solely for you. Use the slot to do nothing at all. This is not the time to clean or cook or catch up on unread emails. It's the time to add to your mood board or flick through a magazine. Enjoy personal time without an agenda.”
Source: Daily Practices: 101 tiny steps to reclaim compassion
“The strongest remedy, the surest balm, and the most comforting pillow God provides for the despairing and anxious is the revelation of His own nature.”
Source: Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God
“He routinely prompts His anxious, depressed, and fearful children to think. One of the chief aspects of God's image bearers is that we have a mind, and God wants those who are anxious to use it.”
Source: Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God
“Job had summoned God to the court of his own sense of justice.”
Source: Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God
“Have you ever realized that your every worry is an invitation to draw closer to God? That every anxiety in your life compels you to direct your gaze to someplace or someone?”
“The words in the Bible are not just words; they are God’s words. Something happens when you read the Bible as opposed to any other piece of literature. It is almost too complicated to explain, but there is a simple concept that sums up the complexity of the matter. Ask yourself this question: “If I read the Bible every day for a year, for fifteen minutes a day, how would my life be different?” Pause right now and ask yourself this question. If you have never read the Bible before, dream about what this might mean for you.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“Creation is not divine; it is engineered.”
Source: In the beginning, Man Created God
“The Bible is the supreme authority. It is the standard by which we judge all extra-Biblical sources of information. It is the starting point of our epistemology.”
Source: The End Is Behind Us: Are We Living in Satan’s Little Season?
“Do everything in love”
“If accuracy, fidelity, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the qualities of an excellent version, this of all versions, must, in general, be accounted the most excellent. Every sentence, every word, every syllable, and every letter and point, seems to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude; and expressed, either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision”