Evidence Not Seen

I was assured that my faith rested not on feelings, not on moments of ecstasy, but on the Person of my matchless, changeless Savior, in Whom there is no shadow caused by turning.

Great God of Wonders

The manner in which men know God is reflected in the degree to which they appreciate His claim on their lives.

Great God of Wonders

If the gospel of the love of God in Christ does not lift us up to love God's law and God's righteousness, it has not entered into our hearts savingly.

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Whenever a race of men becomes obsessed with a sense of the love and righteousness of God, the world is turned upside down.

Great God of Wonders by Maurice Roberts

To lose truth is to lose God, heaven and the gospel itself. If truth is lost, all that matters is lost.

Evidence Not Seen

I realized how little I knew of what makes a true missionary statesman; of a faith that never staggers at the promise of God, no matter how incredible to the natural man its fulfillment seems; of a trust in the Unchanging One, Who keeps the heart at rest and unperturbed in a changing world; of a burning love that counts not life dear until itself, but is expendable for God; and of a vision that is never dimmed.

Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose

I was to discover, however, that when I took my eyes off the circumstances that were overwhelming me, over which I had no control, and looked up, my Lord was there, standing on the parapet of heaven looking down. Deep in my heart He whispered, "I'm here. Even when you don't see Me, I'm here. Never for a moment are you out of My sight."

The Price of Stones by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

The internet was like a rumor in rural Uganda. Everyone pretended to know all about it, but few actually had any idea.

The Glory of Christ

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight in Heaven who does not, it some measure, behold it by faith in this world.

The Glory of Christ by Maurice Roberts

Only a sight of His glory, and nothing else, will truly satisfy God's people. The hearts of believers are like a magnetized needle which cannot rest until it is pointing north. So also, a believer, magnetized by the love of Christ, will always be restless until he or she comes to Christ and beholds His glory. The soul which can be satisfied without beholding the glory of Christ, that cannot be eternally satisfied with beholding the glory of Christ, is not a soul for whom Christ prays.

The Thought of God

Those who are not heavenly-minded are of little earthly good.

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All happiness is the enjoyment of God in one way or another... And where God is not enjoyed, either directly or indirectly, nothing is enjoyed. Without God there is nothing to enjoy. The supreme excellence of the Christian's happiness in heaven will be that there at last he will enjoy God fully.

The Thought of God

When God's ways do not appear to match His promises, our duty is not to be inactive under the plea of His sovereignty, but to copy this psalmist in an intense intercession that this sovereign God would graciously vindicate His truth by raising up His cause.

Understanding Buddy by Marc Kornblatt

There we were, laughing on the couch, me with tears in my eyes I was howling so hard, when I realized that some things in life are just like Charlies [Chaplin] song. They make no sense, and no matter how hard you try to understand them they may never make sense, but they can still make you laugh. Or cry.

The Last Battle

And as he spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed and then cried: "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

"Got to start by finding it, have we?" answered Puddleglum. "Not allowed to start by looking for it, I suppose?"

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I know nothing so disagreeable as being kissed by a giantess.

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"Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this."

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"Courage, friends," came Prince Rilian's voice. "Whether we live or die, Aslan will be our good lord."

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"You cannot want wrong things any more, now that you have died, my son," said Aslan.

The Thought of God by Maurice Roberts

Repentance ought to be a believer's daily and hourly companion. Brokenness of heart and tenderness of spirit should be the hallmark of our whole character... We make no spiritual progress apart from repentance.

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A slothful, unfeeling religion is not the faith we read of in the Bible. There is such a thing as following the Lord fully. There is such a thing as fearing the Lord greatly. There is such a thing as the wish to see God glorified here and now on earth. Then let all right-hearted men pray for grace to cast off the mantle of complacency and gird up their loins with fresh zeal for the task.

Pilgrim Street by Hesba Stretton

"Yes," murmured Tom, "We needn't be afraid of loving God."

The Thought of God by Maurice Roberts

To what then shall we liken the Higher Critics and the liberal theologians who have placed Christ on their Procrustean bed and lopped off His Godhead, glory and grace? They are like children playing with their father's car on a rainy day and who put on the windscreen wipers and say, 'See, we have stopped the rain!' but, unfortunately for those who find fault with a faultless Christ and who stumble over the stumblingstone of a Man who is also the incarnate God, Jesus is not in the smallest degree diminished by their low opinions of Him. He remains the Lord of glory still, after all that the demythologizers have done to cork Christ down firmly into their critical bottle.

Recycled Post

This is from the quote page that I attempted to start on my main blog but of course forgot all about.

"Even if we are killed, I would rather be killed fighting for Narnia than grow old and stupid at home." -- C.S. Lewis,The Last Battle

"She said earnestly and yet in her sweetest, tenderest way, 'Oh, my darling Katy! What you need is such a living, personal love of Christ to make the thought of being where He is so delightful as to fill your mind wiht the single thought!'" -- Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward, p. 38

"'Aslan,' said Lucy, 'You're bigger.'
'That is because you are older, little one,' he answered.
'Not because you are?'
'I am not. But every year you grow you will find me bigger.'" -- C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian


"The command to praise is a righteous command because God is the most infinitely valuable person in the whole universe, and not to praise Him would be cosmic treason and a moral violation of the highest good." -- Brian Borgman, Feelings and Faith, p. 176

"For she does not pretend not to grieve, but always says, 'It is repining that dishonors God, not grief.'" -- Stepping Heavenward, p. 211

"My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dunghill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist, therefore, and tell us what you propose." -- C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy


"He turned and saw, pacing beside him, taller than the horse, a Lion. The horse did not seem to be afraid of it or else could not see it. It was from the Lion that the light came. No on ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful... But after one glance at the Lion's face, he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. He couldn't say anything but then he didn't want to say anything, and he knew he needn't say anything." -- The Horse and His Boy


"But the sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God. It proves a tonic to the system, and is actually a blessing. No on can truly appreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion. -- Martin Duggard, Into Africa


"He was twenty-five years old, a squatty, dogged Civil War vet who fought for the blue and gray, but had otherwise achieved nothing remarkable in his lifetime. In fact, Stanley's life to that point was notable only for its mediocrity. He had tried and been found wanting as a soldier, sailor, gold miner, son, and lover. Yet there seemed no limit to the endeavors he was willing to attempt, then abruptly discard, without noteworthy accomplishment." -- Into Africa


"There is nothing about God's being, nature or ways which embarrasses us more than His gentleness... God's gentleness is somehow awesome and overwhelming to our minds. It catches us off balance and staggers us by its very wonderfulness." -- Maurice Roberts, The Thought of God, p. 16

"The most sublime of God's works are not His prodigious acts of power but His acts of grace... What, after all, is the highest expression of God's greatness and glory? It is not His outward displays of vast energy in the material world, wonderful as these are, but His inward acts of grace, performed silently in the hearts and lives of men." -- The Thought of God, p. 19


"And God saves none against His will... It is a secret exercise of omnipotence on the hidden man of the heart coaxing and alluring him to salvation and glory by Christ. It is always effectual but it is never brute strength." -- The Thought of God, p. 21

"Perhaps we are too frequently guilty of limiting God to methods of blessing us which are according to our own understanding." -- The Thought of God, p. 21

"Because, this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to one so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear." Reepicheep, C. S. Lewis,The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.." -- Reepicheep, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"'Oh, Aslan,' said Lucy. 'Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?'
'I shall be telling you all the time,' said Aslan. 'But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.'" The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"'I daren't come and drink,' said Jill.
'Then you will die of thirst,' said the Lion.
'Oh dear!' said Jill, coming another step nearer. 'I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.'
'There is no other stream,' said the Lion." -- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair


"You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie." Puddleglum, The Silver Chair


"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do." -- Puddleglum,The Silver Chair


"Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things -- trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side, even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." -- Puddleglum, The Silver Chair


"Addie said it was like the thrill she got shoving a raw plucked chicken into the oven and knowing that in a little while she'd have a soul-satisfying entree. It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry." -- Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here


"By spiritual elevation we do not... refer to the boisterous movement of the arms which in some circles appears to be deemed essential to public worship." The Thought of God


"It is unquestionably one of the tragic fruits of our fallen nature that we can grow in theological knowledge without growing perceptibly in appreciation of what that knowledge means." The Thought of God


"The Bible's message to us involves the breathtakingly good news that 'God is love.' Such a statement, were we not made of stone, would be so welcome to us in this dark world of misery that we should run to trumpet it from the housetops. Only our chronic deafness makes us so unresponsive to such transcendent glad tidings... when we still our minds to hear the good news of God's love, it beggars all our thoughts and swallows up all our fears. If God is love then every anxiety of believers is a lie. Over all the carange of war and above the ghastly spectacle of human woe, over every helmet of the warrior and garment rolled in blood there is the rainbow of God's covenanted grace. There is meaning to the most random events in life. There is a benign and wise Father in, through and over all things, even things filled with pain, suffering, and death." --The Thought of God, ch. 10

"Why else should these inspired writers call on inanimate nature to leap up in a chorus of song except to surprise us out of our inattention to the great goodness of God towards us in the gospel? Knowing our minds to be nine-tenths asleep to God's love, therefore, they aim to startle us from our lack of appreciation by calling on all nature, as it were, to sound a cannonade." --The Thought of God, ch. 10

"Let the believer think much and often of the love Christ." -- The Thought of God


"Let us recall with deepest mortification that if Christ is my life, I was His death... So let every believer think and ponder often in his heart till the fire burns and the heart of stone melts in solemn appreciation of what we owe to Him whose Name is above every name that ever shall be." -- The Thought of God


"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin -- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours -- closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid -- but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds." -- J.R.R. Tolkien,The Fellowship of the Ring


"To run away from Jesus is to turn away from the fountain of all grace and love. To be religious but not crown Christ as Lord of all is to insult God and injure ourselves eternally." -- The Thought of God, ch. 11

For the love of books

Why another blog? It took me 8 years to finish a journal and I have several different blogs for different reasons, but why this one? Well, moving back and forth between the house and my apartment during the school week often causes me to forget to bring things back and forth. One such thing is my book quote. I mean, you never know when you need that book quote again! So rather than remember to bring my quote book back and forth, I now have an accessible online version all the time.

"A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron

"Reading is powerful. Revolutions have started from reading. The Reformation didn't just promote reading; reading started and fueled it. When oppressors and tyrants want to squash freedom they burn books, with authors of the books soon to follow. There is something almost mystical about a book. There is something wondrous about reading." -- Feelings and Faith, page 201, Brian Borgman

"What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?" -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.