“Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.”

– Anselm of Canterbury

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”

-Jane Eyre

It has become clearer that God being glorified and God being enjoyed are not separate categories. They relate to each other not like fruit and animals, but like fruit and apples. Apples are one kind of fruit. Enjoying God supremely is one way to glorify him. Enjoying God makes him look supremely valuable.

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God created me -and you – to live with a single, all embracing, all-transforming passion – namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. If we try to display the excellence of God without joy in it, we will display a shell of hypocrisy and create scorn or legalism. But if we claim to enjoy his excellence and do not display it for others to see and admire, we deceive ourselves, because the mark of God-enthralled joy is to overflow and expand by extending itself into the hearts of others. The wasted life is life without a passion for the supremecy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

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We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the inifite worth that he really is. [...] This is what it means to be created in the image of God. We are meant to image forth in the world what he is really like.

- taken from Don’t Waste Your Life, by John Piper

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.

- Chuck Swindoll -

“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best and man will not take it.”

George MacDonald