Category: Quotes Worth Pondering

Here are 3 quotes from Augustine of Hippo – if you are unfamiliar with him you can read a brief bio HERE.

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”

“I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”

“For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”

When are we most prayerful and faithful? When we keenly feel our desperation for God, like we can’t live without him. And we are most vulnerable to sin when we don’t feel that way.

Sadly, we tend to come to the church as consumers intent to plunder the benefits only.

“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn’t want our success; He wants us. He doesn’t demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”

There is nothing that inspires our gratitude and awe more than the love shown us by the eternal Son of God on the cross.

¹⁶ I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:16-21)

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it is time to water your own yard!

“Christianity , if false, is of NO importance, and if true , of INFINITE importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Grace calls you to keep forsaking old ways for new and better ways and then enables you with the presence, power, and promises of God.