Love that motivates obedience

"The key to a godly life is not more and more self-generated effort. Instead, Jesus is saying, 'Love me and your obedience will flow naturally from that love.' The secret to obedience isn't formulaic steps found in a self-help book. It is a relentless pursuit of love for him. How then do I cultivate the sincerity of love that motivates obedience? By focusing more intently on his love for me than on my love for him, more on his obedience than mine, more on his faithfulness than mine, more on his strengths than mine."


From Shared from Comforts from the Cross: Celebrating the Gospel One Day at a Time by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

So Heavenly-Minded No Earthly Good?

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. . . . It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." 

C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, chapter 10).

Let's hear it for Doctrine!

"Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as 'a bad press.' We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine-'dull dogma,' as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama."

Dorothy Sayers

Fun Quote

"Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper.

It doesn't change things permanently,

but it makes everything OK for a while."

Author Unknown

An eye-opening quote

"Whatever a mother excuses in moderation, her children are likely to excuse in excess."  Nancy Leigh DeMoss