Sometimes in the heat of the toil of my labor I give in to fits of selfish rage - frustration more over my lack of skill than over my apartment’s progress. But late at night when I look over the piles of dust and dry wall and knee-deep debris that remain during this reconstructive effort, I am strangely moved by the place and I proclaim the gospel to it softly.
“Loneliness is the granite anvil
On which the chains
Of all relationships are forged.”
- calvin miller
“Sometimes we must walk by
ourselves because it hurts
so much to be alone.”
- samuel delany
“God helps you face things
that YOU cannot do alone.”
- leigh ann elisabeth lippe
“… when Christ has stripped away everything we have invented about Him (including our […]
“I think that part of being human is being alone. And being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require that the people we love take away that loneliness. And they really can’t. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people […]
“Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service of God. Our Lord’s answers are based not on caprice, but on a knowledge […]
“…I think that our real doctrine is that doctrine that is born our in our character. I think you can profess the Apostle’s Creed until Christ returns, but if you don’t love somebody you never were a Christian.” - Rich Mullins