June
“The deepest reality of life in the Spirit depicted in the Book of Acts is that the disciples of Jesus rarely, if ever, go where they want to go or to whom they would want to go. Indeed the Spirit seems to always be pressing the disciples to go to those to whom they would in fact strongly prefer never to share space, or a meal, and definitely not life together. Yet it is precisely this prodding to be boundary-crossing and border-transgressing that marks the presence of the Spirit of God.“
— Willie James Jennings
May
“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar who has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.“
— C. S. Lewis
April
“God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
March
“A man who walks with God can never erase the sight of human need from his heart. He must act or forever shut his eyes. He cannot see and then be at ease. Vision carries with it a great obligation.“
— David Wilkerson