A Matter of the Heart

A Journey: Of Weakness Strengthened, Pride Humbled, and of the Glorious Gift of Grace

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

Following Jesus into his Kingdom means we allow him to heal the blindness that causes us to view the world from a shallow, self-centered perspective. We must stop resisting him as he works to disengage us from the false values of status, power, and being on top. If we’ll let him, he’ll free us from our obsession with safety and security, and from our tendency to recoil from people on the fringes of society.

Lance Ford, Revangelical (via contrariansoul)

Lord knows I need this

[avecruxspesunica]

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

St. Augustine (via aheartfortheheartless)

[kushandwizdom]

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (via kushandwizdom)

Good Vibes HERE

(via kushandwisdom)

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

(via imjustkilling-time)

[larmoyante]

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.

Jeanette Winterson (via theflowersinmyheart)

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

Christians have much to learn about faith as a lived experience, not a thought experiment. Rational faith—the form of Christianity that relies on argument, logic, and apologetics to establish and defend its rightness—has failed miserably in meeting people where they live.

Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks (via contrariansoul)

[micronhero]

Jus quit it. #sketchbook

[waronidiocy]

[gospelofthekingdom]

I love this.

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

makoto-isa

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

"There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” 

― Madeleine L’Engle

[satans-advocate-deactivated2014]

[cringusmcbingus]

Found in Brooklyn

[thesociologicalcinema]

"Gentrification is the new colonialism"

[amatteroftheheart]

Hmm, is it? Deffinitely food for thought

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

The Church is always God hung between two thieves. Thus, no one should be surprised or shocked at how badly the church has betrayed the gospel and how much it continues to do so today. It had never done very well. Conversely, however, nobody should deny the good the church has done either. It has carried grace, produced saints, morally challenged the planet, and made, however imperfectly, a house for God to dwell in on this earth. To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with the saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul…because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.”

Ronald Rolheiser (via contrariansoul)

[neonwonder]

[hikewhileyoucan]

hike while you can

[blakebaggott-deactivated2017041]

This world is our home. The present arrangement of the world is not our home. The city Abraham was seeking is what Jesus is building.

Brian Zahnd (via blakebaggott)

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution (via contrariansoul)

[childrenofthetao]

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

G.K. Chesterton (via childrenofthetao)

[denisehess]

He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give to others. He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressivity, his ego-centered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means.

Thomas Merton (via denisehess)