You want to be holy? You want a deeper faith? Then you have to give God time and not just intend to.
—A.W. Tozer (via deebella123)
(Source: passionatelypursued, via comeupfromthewilderness)
Oh I love it! A gallery with no sculptures, only a cloud floating within the space. ‘Nimbus’ is a new installation of Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde, who refuses to explain how he managed to create a real cloud
What?!
oh.
(via comeupfromthewilderness)
“Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?” - Francis Chan
(Source: spiritualinspiration, via moshwithjesus)
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- Me: God, I'm so sorry. I've failed you again.
- God: I know you think I should convict you and guilt you into repentance, but I don’t think that’s what you really need. Underneath it all, I know that you question unconditional love and my ability to love such a broken race. But believe me when I say, this love is real, it’s unbreakable, it’s purely heavenly and nothing you can do will ever change that. Isn’t that amazing?
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
—C.S. Lewis (via thisbrilliantsky)
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
—C.S. Lewis (via coffeereverie)
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
Indeed, the safest road to hell is the gracful one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
—C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters)
(Source: itskathryns)
There seems no plan because it’s all plan. There seems no center because it’s all center.
I want God, not my idea of God.
—C.S. Lewis (via a-sky-so-pristine)
humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less
—~c.s. lewis (via brighterworldonhigh)
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
—C.S. Lewis (via tay-day)
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God forgave the inexcusable in you.
—C.S. Lewis (via worththejourney)
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 (via worththejourney)
