For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as a lyre, and adjusting things in the air to things on the earth, and things in the heaven to things in the air, and combining parts into wholes and moving them all by His beck and will, produces well and fittingly, as the result, the unity of the universe and of its order, Himself remaining unmoved with the Father while He moves all things by His organising action, as seems good for each to His own Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
...When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die....
The Rightful King Has Arrived: Contrasting the Triumphal Entry and the Lamentation of Jerusalem in Luke 19:28-47
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!”
C.S. Lewis: God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain.
...God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....
A.W. Tozer: We are to hate sin in ourselves and in all men, but never undervalue the man in whom the sin is found.
We are to hate sin in ourselves and in all men, but never undervalue the man in whom the sin is found.