George McDonald

 Soon I fell asleep, over-come with fatigue and delight. In dreams of unspeakable joy-of restored friendships; of revived embraces; of love which said it had never died; of faces that had vanished long ago, yet said with smiling lips that they knew nothing of the grave; of pardons implored, and granted with such bursting floods of love, that I was almost glad I had sinned-thus I passed through this wondrous twilight. I awoke with the feeling that I had been kissed and loved to my heart's content; and found that my boat was floating motionless by the grassy shore of a little island. Ch. 18 Phantastes 

"He clung to his one possession—only clung: this was his father—all in all to him. What must be the bliss of such a heart—of any heart, when it comes to know that there is a father of fathers, yea, a father of fatherhood! a father who never slumbers nor sleeps, but holds all the sleeping in his ever waking bosom—a bosom whose wakefulness is the sole fountain of their slumber!"  Sir Gibbie (The Baronet's Song) by George MacDonald

"Part of him wanted to run, to fly away from it all, to end this madness. His stomach churned, and he feared he would be sick. He wanted to live. Desperately he wanted to live. 

Just when he felt a wave of panic overtaking him, more surely than one of the crashing waves to left and right, a change came over him. Exactly when his inner fears turned to praying he could not remember, but he was praying like never before. Not silent head-bowed praying. Not eyes-closed, hands-folded praying. Not absently mumbling words he'd learned as a child. This was full-throated crying aloud to God pouring out his fears, laying naked and shameless before God his very soul. Gone was any fear of being overheard, by Watookoog, or by other soldiers, or by the French on the beach. Nothing mattered but that God in heaven heard him." P.223 Guns of Thunder, Douglas Bond

"In the old days they were simple and stately and kind. All doors were open to travelers. The master of the poorest hut uttered a blessing and a welcome when a stranger crossed his threshold. It was the custom of the country," Marco said. "I read about it in a book of my father's. About most of the doors the welcome was carved in stone. It was this—'The Blessing of the Son of God, and Rest within these Walls.'" p.168 The Lost Prince 

C.S Lewis on mysticism: "The true religion gives value to it's own mysticism; mysticism does not validate the religion in which it happens to occur."

"Final failure is simply a function of giving up, the way Judas did. Pulling glory out of failure is to weep bitterly over the sin, and then to turn the whole mess over to God, as Peter did. Anything that is turned over to God in faith—whether ineptitude, moral failure, limited abilities, relational challenges, whatever—is part of what He is weaving into His final and majestic success, a little thing called the history of the cosmos. So don’t waste your failures. Throw them into the mix. Do it by faith, but throw them all in." Doug Wilson's blog

"Be of good cheer; your cause belongs to him who can avenge your wrongs; leave it to him, our Lord though hidden yet from all our eyes, he sees the Gideon who shall rise to save us and his Word."

Johann Michael Altenburg, Trinity Hymnal

"Technology is therefore a form of wealth. The reason this is important is because the Bible says very little about technology as such, but it gives us a great deal of blunt and pointed teaching on the subject of wealth. If we learn how to deal with wealth scripturally, then we will have learned how to deal with technology." Ploductivity, Doug Wilson

https://mattadair.typepad.com/communitas/files/five_love_languages_critique.pdf

Five Love Languages: A Critique by David Powlison

"But speaking love languages is surely not the whole story. In fact, it is practical, immoral wisdom—manipulation or pandering or both—when it becomes the whole story. Part of considering the interests of others is to do them tangible good. But then to really love them, you usually need to help them see their itch as idolatrous, and to awaken in them a far more serious itch! That’s basic Christianity.

5LL will never teach you to love at this deeper, more life-and-death level. Chapman’s reasons for giving accurate love to others, his explanation of what speaking another’s love language does, his ultimate goal in marriage, and his evaluation of the significance of love languages are deplorable.

Using Scripture well is a necessary and hard-won wisdom. It takes peculiar skills to engage in the give-and-take, fits-and-starts, slow progress of conversation, skills different from what’s involved in delivering a prepared, orderly public message. Understanding people calls for you to develop a case-wise feel for how real people operate in the real world, and how the change process actually occurs. And, at every point, your essential character is on the line, especially in the midst of disagreements. Do you deal with others in ways that are charitable yet candid, courageous yet merciful, fair yet teachable, and patient through it all? The Holy Spirit who is the Lord authors and gives away the diverse wisdoms we need."