grace under fire

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
- Mike Tyson

envy

If you have a problem with other people succeeding, you need to deal with that before the Lord.
- Aucker

books change people

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life.

- Christopher Morley

the necessity of the languages for ministry

“One outstanding difficulty in theological education today is that the students persist in regarding themselves not as specialists, but as laymen. Critical questions about the Bible they regard as property of men who are training themselves for theological professorships or the like, while the ordinary minister, in their judgment, may content himself with the most superficial layman’s acquaintance with the problems involved. The minister is thus no longer a specialist in the Bible, but has become merely a sort of general manager of the affairs of a congregation. … If on the other hand, the minister is a specialist – if the one thing that he owes his congregation above all others is a thorough acquaintance, scientific as well as experimental, with the Bible – then the importance of Greek requires no elaborate argument.”
- Machen