The true follower of Christ will not ask, “If I embrace this truth, what
will it cost me?” Rather he will say, “This is truth. God help me to
walk in it, let come what may!”
-A.W. Tozer
It is in the process of being worshiped that God communicates His presence to men.
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C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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Martin Luther, The Early Years, Christian History
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I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate “the pearl oyster”—A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but “cover” it with a precious substance extracted out of its own life, by which it turns the intruder into a pearl! Oh, that we could do so with the provocations we receive from our fellow Christians, so that pearls of patience, gentleness, and forgiveness might be bred within us by that which otherwise would have harmed us.
