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You must dive in

Dan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:18:18 +0000

“…you must dive into the water.”
“Alas,” said he, “I have never learned to dive.”
“There is nothing to learn,” said she. “The art of diving is not to do anything new but simply to cease doing something. You have only to let yourself go.”
“It is only necessary,” said Vertue, with a smile, “to abandon all efforts at self-preservation.”
–C.S. Lewis, THE PILGRIM’S REGRESS (William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002; orig. pub. 1933), p. 168.

One of my favourite lines from The Shack

Dan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:36:14 +0000

“Does that mean,” asked Mack, “that all roads will lead to you?”
“Not at all,” smiled Jesus as he reached for the door handle to the shop. “Most roads don’t lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.”

Quote – Feb 1

Dan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:29:50 +0000

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down, and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes.

–George Mueller

Quote – Jan 7

Dan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:19:50 +0000

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man’s obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.