“And of all words that ever were spoken, were there ever any gentler, tenderer, humbler, lovelier than these? ‘Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall [...]

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will… Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God… is fattening and feeding the children of [...]

God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
And this:
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may [...]

I glean so much from the Desiring God blog that I have to hold back from linking to it almost on a daily basis. Today John Piper’s topic was “Christ is the Staff of Old Age.” I particularly loved this part of his quote from Samuel Rutherford:
Therefore I commend Christ to you as the staff [...]

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive His poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. ~Elisabeth Elliot in Gateway to Joy

It is good to learn early on that suffering and God
are no contradiction,
but much more a necessary unity:
for me the idea that God himself suffered
was always one of the most convincing teachings
of Christianity.
I think that God is closer to suffering than to happiness,
and to find God in this manner gives peace and rest,
and a strong [...]

Believers are not dependent upon circumstances. Their joy comes not from what they have, but from what they are; not from where they are, but from whose they are; not from what they enjoy, but from that which was suffered for them by their Lord. It is a singular joy, then, because it often buds, [...]

I was looking through some of my quotes and saw this one. It made me laugh, and I just couldn’t resist sharing it.
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert

It always amazes me how many posts there are to catch up on when I’ve not been at the computer for a few days. Some of y’all are prolific posters! I heeded my husband’s request that I see a doctor about the wretched cold that would not go away, and it turned out that [...]

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life - the life God is sending one day by day. –C. S. Lewis