And Lucy felt that deep shiver of gladness that you only get if you are being solemn and still.

C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“In English,” Professor Austin said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

Linguistics joke « The Diacritics (via katydidkatydidnt)

It’s a lot more vulnerable to step into a big identity without seeing results of it first. I’m learning that’s what faith is.

Kendra

The focus should be the sacrifice of Christ and how we as the church must model ourselves after his example, doing nothing but building others up. Giving until we are dry. NO MORE LUXURY. All you need is a building to gather in, one bible, songbooks, and voices to sing and speak. Boost your numbers by changing your communities, giving to the people who need it, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry. That’s what the church is supposed to be about.

I don’t want to simply reblog something. I’d like to live it. Spencer (via thelisabanana)

What we tend to win people with is what we tend to win people to.

Bob Kauflin

A change of habit does not mean a change of heart.

Jenny Frank

The Bible is not a pep talk. It is good news.

http://theresurgence.com/2011/03/31/transform-your-bible-reading

The man who comes to the right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

Jason Jones

God gets the glory, and we get the joy. I wouldn’t want it to be any other way.

John Piper

Christian humility sees life and breath and everything as a gift of God and so is shot through with gratitude instead of grumbling. But not only is all a gift. Because of our sin, all the benefits of life and the hope of eternity are utterly undeserved gifts. The Christian knows that his life hangs on a scarlet cord of mercy and mercy alone. Therefore, the humble person is not greatly inclined to demand personal rights, because he knows if he were treated like that his life would be over. He is not presumptuous or insolent but unassuming and meek. The humble person has the feeling that his natural place is to serve rather than be served; he takes the lowest seat. There arises in his heart a great uneasiness when he is unduly honored or praised. And even when he has done well, the compliments he gets are a bit awkward for him, not because he artificially denies his competence, but because he feels so keenly that whatever he has accomplished is owing to grace, so that God should get the credit above all. The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored. And finally, a person who has been humbled and secured by the gospel will manifest a willingness to acknowledge his error and a readiness to be corrected when wrong. Humility does not try to save face. It is quick to admit its own finitude and imperfection and stubbornness.

John Piper - “It’s My Pleasure” sermon 1983

The new birth unites the want-to with the ought-to at the root. But they do not become one tree until heaven.

John Piper (Twitter)

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Lemony Snicket. (via julie911)

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Jesus (Luke 6:32-33)

I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan

Contrary to what most people think, I don’t think kids go to college to get a degree. Sure, that’s a plus, and somehow society skewed it so that the degree is the end all be all of our generation. But college is about growing up, healing, learning how to do relationship, learning how to balance life, learning how to break out of our stupid bubbles. God brought me to APU for so much more than a degree. He brought me here to heal my wounds. He brought me here to cast my broken arms and legs. He brought me here to mold me into the man that can take that degree and use it in ways that this kid could never imagine. That is why I am in college.

Ryan: Discouraged

 It isn’t the main point of the post, and thus a little out of context, but I liked it.

Nevertheless, among churchmen, beyond their rites and ceremonies, luxury is a crime. It seems to disclose habits which are not truly charitable. A wealthy priest is a contradiction. He ought to keep himself near the poor. But, who can be in contact continually, by night as well as day, with all distresses, all misfortunes, all privations, without taking upon himself a little of that holy poverty, like the dust of a journey? Can you imagine a man near a fire who does not feel warm? Can you imagine a labourer working constantly at a furnace, who has not a hair burned, nor a nail blackened, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

Research papers should NOT include personal opinion but simply report findings.

instructions for my music paper that make the project really boring.

Wow, this town is so small it is in parenthesis.

Gus

-Psych, Dual Spires

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much Government.

Thomas Jefferson

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

Galations 6:4-5