“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”-C.S. Lewis
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”-C.S. Lewis
"What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master."-The Barbarian Way
"I am saying that we need to find the courage & freedom to be ourselves. We need to let ourselves become the unique individuals that God created us to be. We need to stop trying to be what everyone else wants us to be, and stop worrying about what everyone else thinks. Barbarians live as if they are naked before God, and naked before men. They have nothing to hide; they don't waste their time or energy pretending to be something they're not."-The Barbarian Way
"Having a domesticated faith is like having a tiger trapped in a cage. You are not intended to be a spiritual zoo where people can look at God in you from a safe distance."-The Barbarian Way
"This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son he ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all." -Brennen Manning
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