Eric Splechter

"Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” —C.S. Lewis

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C.S Lewis

"Love has within it a redemptive power." —Martin Luther King Jr.

No tomb could contain what love was about to release.

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." —C.S. Lewis

"Three biblical symbols—God as a glory cloud, as a Son subject to death, and as a Spirit melding together a new Body—show a progression of intimacy, from fear to shared humanity to shared essence.""—Dr. Paul Brand (& Philip Yancey) #RenovareBookClub

@Jabowilson @afwils @neilschori @Coachmcmurray Here are a few to start... Pearl Jam - Ten. Alice In Chains - Dirt. Nirvana - Nevermind. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York. Radiohead - The Bends. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams.

@afwils @neilschori @ESplechter @Coachmcmurray your selections?

"It may be that God has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." —G.K. Chesterton

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” —Francis of Assisi

Love doesn't obey all the rules we try to give it.

Many of us have lost our way trying to help other people find theirs. Arguments don’t change people; authenticity does. Live in Grace; Walk in Love

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

"The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.” —A.W. Tozer

Spiritual Formation is not something we master. —Eugene Peterson

Confidence is a beautiful thing. Arrogance is not.

Willard: "We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it..."

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering... and you find that you have excluded life itself." —C.S. Lewis

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything." ―Teresa of Ávila

Eugene Peterson: "Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?"

Love has the kind of power cynicism only wishes it had.