Category Archives: Quick Thoughts

Glass Half Empty or Overflowing?

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother … Continue reading

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Tragic Churches

The tragedy of many modern, prosperous, complacent, spoiled, indulgent “Christian churches”…. Continue reading

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“At the End”

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’ – … Continue reading

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Hurt Feelings?

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them. – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Faithful are the wounds of a friend…. … Continue reading

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“It is My Job”

It is OK if I die because it is my job and I am ready for it. – Sri Lankan soldier to cricketer Kumar Sangakkara Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. – Paul (II Timothy … Continue reading

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The Sun, the Light

Man is the sun of the world; more than the real sun. The fire of his wonderful heart is the only light and heat worth gauge or measure.  – John Ruskin But unto you that fear my name shall the … Continue reading

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Faith: the Present, the Future

Faith . . .  carries present loads, meets present battles, feeds on present promises, and commits the future to a faithful God! – Theodore Cuyler (1822-1909) Excerpted from “Strength for Today“

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