“We all know that each snow flake is different and unique, because we’ve all been to preschool. Each one is beautiful, yeah, yeah, we know that too. But how can we possibly value these things when their maker slings them around like so much trash? Actually, I’ve never seen anyone sling this much trash. Doesn’t He realize that people will curse this tomorrow? That they’ll shovel it and salt it and SUV it into gray slop? Does He know that my daughters are going to roll in it, melting thousands of flakes with their flushed cheeks and tens of thousands with their tongues?”
“Snow is so overused. One sentimental, overly structured ice flake might have some value. But God never seems capable of moderation or of understanding the basic concepts behind supply and demand.”
“This is not a sober world… bats really do exist. Caterpillars really turn into butterflies—It’s not just a lie for children. Coal squishes into diamonds. Apple trees turn flowers into apples, using sunlight and air.” ND Wilson
without the biblical doctrine of SIN. . . the world wont make sense to you.
when your desires are disordered, you’ll see worth in unworthy places
“Write a past you won’t regret”
“We are authors and we are writing every second of every day. A child scissors a couch, and that action is forever and always. It cannot be undone. But now it is your turn. What you say and what you do in response will be done forever, never to be appealed, edited, or modified.
If life is a race (and it is), then it is run across wet concrete.
If life is a story (and it is), then that story is the cumulative spatter of our tracks.”
ND Wilson
“God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child’s smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying.”
ND Wilson
Proverbs 1:32–33
For the simple are killed by their turning away [from God],
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
but whoever listens to [God] will dwell secure
and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.
A faithful Christian is someone who can live care-free.
Which is not the same thing as care-less.
“As the earth screams through space, balanced exactly on the edge of everyone burning alive and everyone freezing solid, as we shriek through deadly obstacle courses of meteor showers and find them picturesque, as the nearest fiery star vomits eruptions hundreds of times bigger that our wee planet (giving chipper local weathermen northern lights to chatter about), as a giant reflective rock glides around us slopping the seas (and never falls down), and as we ride in our machines, darting past fools and drunks and texting teenagers, how many times do we thank God? We are always in His hands, but we often feel like we are in our own. We can’t thank Him for every breath and every heartbeat, but we can thank Him every day for not splatting us with the moon or letting us drop into the sun.” (ND WILSON)
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
"Our secular age wanted to be atheistic without tumbling headlong into the Void. But as it turns out, that is not possible. When you untether the earth from its sun, as Nietzsche saw, certain things follow. One of them is the kind of darkness that you cannot dance away."
“Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.”
ND WILSON
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. (1 Timothy 1:15)
Paul persecuted believers. dragged them off to jail. endorsed the execution of Stephen. was self-righteous and a hater of God.
and he was given mercy.
Jesus dealt with time.
Callouses.
Sore back
Needy people.
Sweat
Pain
Betrayal
TIME PASSING like a freight train.
Nothing could stop his destiny.
And he was fearless.
He was such a man.
THE MAN.
‘behold the man!’ Pilate declared.
Root of David. Offspring of the woman. Snake-crusher.
Atheist Fortune Cookie:
“There is only the material world. Don’t ask me where hyper-hydrogen came from, but I am pretty sure it blew up because I’m here (I think). The “laws” of nature and reality and logic and morality are non-binding and are merely internal descriptions of the accidental explosion by another part of that same explosion and are likely to further explode or implode into something else as stuff continues to splatter around. You have no soul, and love and loyalty are chemical by-products of the accident and have no authority as the explosion neglected to accidentally create any. You have no purpose, no deeper meaning, and are no more valuable than any other mobile composting machine, engulfing and expelling until you are engulft and expelt. Also, as you have no soul, the concept of you is itself shaky, as your self-identity is simply the result of an arbitrary atomic boundary imagined by static electricity in spongey tissue inside a spherical bone that appears to be proud of any carbon-based meat that happens to be electronically connected to it. You’re not important. Your molecules prefer fragmenting to binding and will inevitably and absolutely fly apart. So suck on that, sucker of thatness. Also, you should be open to new opportunities this month.”
ND Wilson
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13)
“the moral value of the discipline of trial cannot be appreciated till the trial is past”
A.B. Bruce
want to understand Christianity?
"Loosen your jaw and begin chewing, this gristle is tough. Adam, living in his story rightly, would have done the same. Adam would not have been the well-behaved Mormon teenager, abstaining from the fruit. He would have looked at Eve, seen her curse, seen her enemy, and gone after that serpent with pure and righteous wrath. He would have then turned to face the pure and righteous wrath of God Himself (that Adam had just imaged), and he would have said something quite simple, something that would be said by another, thousands of years later.
'Take me instead.' ”
seed of the serpent vs seed of the woman