Books

I have been passionate about books my entire life. In grade school, my teacher assigned a series of reports on the provinces of Canada. Each week, I wrote one report, and by the end of the term, I gathered them all, added a table of contents and a title page, and bound them with yarn….

Excerpts:“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.”“God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful, that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature.”“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.”

Excerpts:“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”“The more you know and the better you understand, the more severely will you be judged, unless your life is also the more holy.”“What good is it to argue about the Trinity…

Excerpts:“The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture.”“God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments.”“The god of…

Excerpts:“A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell.”“We are commanded to study His Torah. We are not commanded to understand it.”“Silence is a great source of strength.”

Excerpts:“The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples—students, apprentices, practitioners—of Jesus Christ.”“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime…

Excerpts:“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.”“You can’t follow Jesus in a hurry.”

Excerpts:“Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers.”“If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.”“Work like it depends on you and pray like it depends on God.”

Excerpts:“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”“Grace means that God is on our side and thus we are victors regardless of how well we have played the game.”“The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder…

Excerpts:“The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be.”“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do.”“We are most…