Esther Filbrun

“Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.”
― Jack Coe

“Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.”
― John Wesley, How to Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

“As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)”
― Philip Yancey, Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
― Jonathan Edwards