When He wore a crown of thorns, do you wish to wear a crown of gold?"
Johann Arndt, *True Christianity*.

"Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things."
Blaise Pascal

"Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin."
Søren Kierkegaard

"The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation -- love thyself, then thy neighbor -- is a license for unremitting self-indulgence, because the quest for self-love is endless. By the time you have finally learned to love yourself, you'll find yourself playing golf at Leisure World."
Charles Krauthammer in *Time* magazine, 28 June 1993

"[Spirituality] arises from a creative and dynamic synthesis of faith and life, forged in the crucible of the desire to live out the Christian faith authentically, responsibly, effectively, and fully."
Alister McGrath, *Christian Spirituality*

"Everyone thinks of changing humanity, and no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy

"Pietists believe that evangelism is the preaching of the Law, to show man what he is in himself, and of the Gospel, to show how differently God now sees him in Christ and his responsibility to live in this new light. This is the theology of Word and Sacrament -- a creative 'can do' which replaces that 'can't do' of the Law. We reject the cognitive theory of religion that says a man can learn what is right and follow it. We also reject that peculiar.... idea that says when you know the right theology you have reached the goal. We hold that a belief which does not accomplish change has not been assimilated and cannot be classified as Luther's 'true and living faith.'"
Ron Zess

"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed." Maya Angelou

"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it."
Charles Caleb Colton

"For perfection, it is better for us to go through the crucible and conquer ourselves; to love God, it is better not to be perfect. How much better it is to be with Him than to compose one's perfection."
Eugraph Kovalevsky, *A Method Of Prayer* (Praxis, 1993)

Every time we say, "I believe in the Holy Spirit," we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
J. B. Phillips, *Plain Christianity*

Illumine our minds, our souls inspire
Vouchsafe to us love's holy fire
Thy wondrous pow'r on us bestow,
That we in grace and strength may grow.
"Creator, Spirit, Heavenly Dove", verse 3
(unknown 8th cent., translated by Luther into German, later translated into English)

"Glory be to 'the Holy Ghost.' Oh, I'm full of spirit, I am not unenlightened. I also have feeling, heart, sentiment, and imagination. But do I ever hold still in order that the wholly Other may fill me with his Spirit and give me a sense of the true priorities in life?"
Helmut Thielicke (as published in *Leadership Journal*, Fall 95)

"Holiness is a state of soul in which all the powers of the body and mind are consciously given up to God."
Phoebe Palmer

"You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil,
if you do not desire to live according to it."
Martin Luther

Link to a sermon on holy living by Charles Spurgeon.

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