Parker Davis

If you aren’t constantly astonished at God’s grace in your solitude, there’s no way it can ever happen in public.

"Your calling is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deepest need.” - Frederick Buechner

“There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” - C.S. Lewis

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” - C.S. Lewis

Adam failed his test in the Garden of Eden, and we died. Jesus passed his test in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we live.

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis

Don’t just go to church on Sunday, fellowship with your church after Sunday. Church is not a day of the week, it’s the people of God. Find a local body of believers to be a member of, then love and serve them. Be discipled and be a disciple-maker. Glorify God as the Church.

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." Gandalf

It’s no coincidence that Jesus’s primary vocational metaphors for ministry were not soldiers, hunters, or even builders, But shepherds, farmers, and fisherman. Why? Because the work of spiritual cultivation is slow, sometimes tedious, and entails a lot of waiting.

“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis

Self-deception is not the worst thing you can do, but it’s the means by which we do the very worst things. The sin that is most distorting your life right now is often the one you can’t see.

“If you’re thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you.” - C.S. Lewis

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption.

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” - C.S. Lewis

“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

It's easy to mistake a morally restrained heart for a spiritually changed heart.

Youth leaders, don’t undersell your students. They’re learning algebra and biology and trigonometry. They can handle some theology.

"When Christianity is working, what we care about is the neighbor. When Christianity is not working, what we care about is Christianity." @JJT1

Everyone says they want community and deep friendship. However, because it takes accountability and commitment we run the other way.

Jesus warns people more often about greed than about sexual immorality, yet few thinks they are guilty of it.