“The meek man…knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.”
A.W.Tozer
I love this quote. It reminds me too of the phrase “in God’s eyes” that we often hear prefixing a sentence: “In God’s eyes you’re great!”, “In God’s eyes you’re worthwhile!”, “In God’s eyes you’re beautiful!”. [...]
The categories of optimism and pessimism don’t exist for me. I’m a blues man. A blues man is a prisoner of hope, and hope is a qualitatively different category than optimism. Optimism is a secular construct, a calculation of probability. Black folk in America have never been optimistic about the future - what have we [...]
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and disappointed. But they will continue their fruitless search. Though wearied, they still stagger forward under the influence of spiritual [...]
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.
CH Spurgeon (all of grace).
There are other books online there too - might take a look at the work of the Fathers as that’s always interested me also.
