“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin.” -Frederick Buechner

"In Christ our suffering is no longer a poisonous tribulation but is transformed into a trial which is creative and promising." Karl Barth

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"God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him." CS Lewis

"Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped." Jack Hayford

“Disguised under the disfigurement of the crucifixion, Christ on the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is” Balthasar

"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." - Clarence W. Hall

“The lower he stoops to save us, the higher we ought to lift him in our adoring reverence.” — Charles Spurgeon

"Christ is the comprehensive mystery underlying all of Scripture." Augustine

"Jesus came into the world for God's sake - to certify God's integrity; to vindicate God's Word; to magnify God's glory." John Piper

"A Christian man, the most free lord of all, subject to none; a Christian man, the most dutiful servant of all, subject to everyone." Luther

“When you forgive somebody who has wronged you, you’re spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride." Fredrick Buechner

“Humility was that low, sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot.” Sir Thomas Moore

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” ― Martin Luther

“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.” Bernard of Clairvaux

“Nothing is more frigid than a Christian who cares nothing for the salvation of others.” John Chrysostom

Human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, marred half-truths, and overt resistance to the truth.

“At every period in the history of the Church the greatest sin of the Church, and the one which caused the greatest distress, is that she withholds the Gospel from the world and, herself.” Emil Brunner

‘God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: pain is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’ CS Lewis