Miscellaneous Quotes

The vision is always solid and reliable; the vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud – G K Chesterton

The birth of righteousness and love in this stern world is always a virgin birth. It is never men nor the nations of men nor all the power and wisdom of men that bring it forth but always God. – Frederick Buechner

Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth and lie bed ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. – Coleridge

Beneath the surface of everyone’s life, especially the more mature, is an ache that will not go away. It can be ignored, disguised, mislabeled or submerged by a torrent of activity, but it will not disappear. And for good reason. We were designed to enjoy a better world than this. And until that better world comes along, we will groan for what we do not have. An aching soul is evidence not of neurosis or spiritual immaturity, but of realism. – Larry Crabb, Inside Out

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accompolished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr