Category: death to self

The seed dies into a new life and so does man. ~George Macdonald (1824-1905) “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you …

To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted … not having to hide anymore and distract …

I came to love You late, O Beauty so ancient and new; I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside, where I rushed about wildly …

“You will have to let me undress you,” says Aslan the Lion… So desperate was Eustace, even his fear of Aslan’s claws was not enough to stop him from …

Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the guile of demons, then we see that …

A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It …

When we come into this sweet relationship, we are beginning to learn astonished reverence, breathless adoration, awesome fascination, lofty admiration of the attributes of God and something of the …

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.~Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot …