Inspiration

-If there is no resurrection then:

-Justice becomes a mockery

-Love becomes a mockery

-Meaning becomes a mockery

Ravi

-For many despair is not a moment, it’s a way of life.

Ravi

-God is like the sun, you can’t look at Him, but without him you cannot look at anything else.

-The loneliest moment in life is when we have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has let you down.

-Empty people move from enchantment to enchantment to enchantment only to experience betrayal after betrayal.

Ravi.

-I suggest that there is not a lack of the availability of truth, but the problem is the hypocrisy of our search.

-Truthfulness in the heart precedes truth in the objective world. Intent is prior to content.

Ravi.

-“Anyone who is on the side of truth listens to me.”

Jesus talking to Pilate.

-Modern man, in his technology, has something that unites him with magic, while separating him from the wisdom of the ages

C.S. Lewis

-The question of old (the wise and prudent) used to be, how to conform the soul to reality. The answer was through virtue, righteousness, and discipline.

-The question of today has become, how can we reconstruct reality to satisfy our passions. And the answer has become is in a technique or technology.

-There are a lot of things that certain passages can create in us, but only the Gospel can create faith.

John Calvin “Not all parts of the word of God create faith.”

Gal 3:5

-Can two people live together? Is Homosexuality ok? …. Well, should bad people go to Heaven.

Gal 5

19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[3] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21envy, murders,[4] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

-Fruit can not be manufactured, we have to bear fruit.

- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot.

-Life like Art owes it’s beauty to it’s boundaries.

C.S. Lewis

So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

-Daily Bread study on Joseph.

-people are doing whatever they feel is right, without ever asking the question, “what is it right to feel.”

Ravi

T.S. Eliot said that the temptation which was the greatest treason was to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Satan and the Son of God met in such a conflict of reason, imagination and will. This is a classic passage.

Ravi