There is no question whether an event has happened because of your prayers. When the event you prayed for occurs your prayer has always contributed to it. When the opposite event occurs your prayer has never been ignored; it has been considered and refused, for your ultimate good and the good of the whole universe.
Jonathan Edwards – The object of our admiration and love
...The glory and beauty of the blessed Jehovah, which is most worthy in itself, to be the object of our admiration and love, is there exhibited in the most affecting manner that can be conceived of, as it appears, shining in all its luster, in the face of an incarnate, infinitely loving, meek, compassionate, dying Redeemer...
Augustine: Our hearts are restless until finding rest in God.
Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
Dallas Willard on Solitude and Silence
...our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn’t start almost immediately when we are “rubbed the wrong way.” Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop...
C.S. Lewis: Good philosophy must exists, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
...Good philosophy must exists, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered...
