More quotes for today

Love slays what we have been, that we may be what we were not--
St. Augustine

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung, and possibly broken...The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and purturbations of love is Hell.--
C.S. Lewis

The man who does not permit his spirit to be beaten down and upset by dryness and helplessness, but who lets God lead him peacefully through the wilderness, and desires no other support or guidance that that of pure faith and trust in God alone will be brought to the Promised Land--
Thomas Merton

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost--
G.K Chesterton

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, God is probably about as weary of it as you are.
Frank Laubach

Spritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely--John Ortberg

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.--
Winston Churchill

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone in our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone.--
Deitrich Bonhoeffer

Sin is often an attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way--
John Ortberg

In general, the soul makes the most progress when it least thinks so..most frequently when it imagines it is losing--
St John of the Cross

Purity of heart is to will one thing--
Soren Kierkegaard

Lord, help me to great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power, and little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name.--Pascal

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the test of greatness.--
Herman Melville

Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives--
Henry Nouwen

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least--
Dorothy Day

You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lammott





(most of the quotes found in books by John Ortberg)