More Contentment in God

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

- John Piper

Discontent Has It's Own Punishment

Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. It is a sin that is its own parent. It arises not from the condition, but from the mind. As we find Paul contented in a prison, so Ahab discontent in a palace.

- Matthew Henry

Just Live It

"Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived."

- Shane Claiborne (via @TheMikeEllis)

Called To Walk In The Light

“From the moment we take our first gasp of air until we breathe our last, God is calling us to walk in the light of his Word.  Whatever ‘tomb’ might feel like security to you is really a deathtrap.  Morning has broken.  The stone has been rolled away.”

- In Mad Mary: A Bad Girl from Magdala, Liz Curtis Higgs (via Sarah Salter from her post, The Little Black Dress

A God-Shaped Vacuum

"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing."

- Blaise Pascal