#van

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world. ↗

— John Piper

#love #mission #missionary #missions #love

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#van-gogh #love

All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life,” my father said. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#lord-peter-wimsey #marriage #strong-poison #marriage

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#entertainment #evangelism #men

We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men. ↗

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

#evangelism #intercession #men

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity. ↗

— J. P. Vinluca

#fools #knowledge #men #power #vanity

Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God Almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. I know all about it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in the stubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father and my brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in all things always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to send him without vainglory. ↗

— Homer

#vanity #men