“‘You all know,’ said the Guide, ‘that security is mortals’ greatest enemy.’”

— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”

— Henri Nouwen

“I think God is like a kaleidoscope. God is unchanging, but we’re standing on the image we see. One day we wake up and find that God has shifted the image. Everything looks different. The world looks different. The world seems new. The trick is learning how to recognize that all the old colors are still there. It’s just the patterns that have changed.”

— Eileen, Tables in the Wilderness by Preston Yancey

We are confronted every day with the sights and sounds of a world in distress- our world. These things should assault our eyes and ears. Instead, they have become familiar backgrounds and ambient noises of our daily lives. They have become so “normal” that we simply no longer hear and no longer see. The result? We no longer pay attention.

— Paul David Tripp

“Obedience is the opener of eyes.”

— George MacDonald

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

— C. S. Lewis