It is not how well we say it, but rather how well we believe it.

-A.W. Tozer

We need to get over ourselves and our inadequacies and let Jesus become the central figure on the computer screen of our minds.

-Jan Johnson

…More things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats

That nourish a blind life within the brain,

If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friends?

For so the whole round earth is every way

Bound by gold chains about the feet of God…

-Tennyson

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify (pigeonhole) him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

-A French priest

One will not try what one does not sense the need for.

-Darrell Bock

To drink the new wine offered at Jesus’ banquet, to wear the new garment for his wedding feast, one must have a new heart, go through metanoia, a change of mind, such as that shown by tax-agents and sinners.

-Luke Timothy Johnson

And so, in those relationships and in those moments when we experience the joy, ecstasy, and relief of being both vulnerable and absolutely cherished, we get just a taste, a mere glimpse, of what God has always felt for us, and what one day we will feel for God.

-Rachel Held Evans

The kingdom is God’s reign and the realm in which the blessings of this reign are experienced; the church is the fellowship of those who have experienced God’s reign and entered into the enjoyment of its blessings.

-George Eldon Ladd

Charity, to be fruitful, must cost us.

-Mother Teresa

To escape the Matrix, you must resolve to believe that what God says about you is true however mush your past or present experience tells you otherwise…to transform our minds we must commit to ascribing more credibility to God than to our brains. Our Matrix-conditioned brains are the problem; they therefore cannot be the foundation of the solution. We have to grasp hold of something that has more credibility than our own brains. We need to have a source of truth that doesn’t depend on our own misprogrammed, organic computer. And this source can only be God’s word, centered on the person of Jesus Christ.

If you are to experience freedom, therefore, God’s word about your true identity in Christ must have more credibility to you than the word of parents, friends, other authorities in your life, and your own past and present experiences. But it’s up to you. You are free to believe it or not.