Ryan Lister

Lord, those are Your best servants who wish to shape their life on Your answers rather than shape Your answers on their wishes. - Augustine

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing . . . to find the place where all the beauty came from. - Lewis

Lord, those are Your best servants who wish to shape their life on Your answers rather than shape Your answers on their wishes. - Augustine

Your best servant is he who looks not so much to hear from you what he wants to hear, but rather to want what he hears from you. - Augustine on following God

For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. - 2 Peter 2:19

Each of us has a presence or a meaning in someone else’s existence. - R. Williams

One of the regular tragedies among Christians who are faced with hostility from outside is how easily, addressing that threat, they turn their frustrations on one another in factional fighting within the community itself. - NT Wright

Don’t let endless words gush out of your mouth: always be quicker to learn from others than to teach them. Don’t get all worked up about the world’s murky affairs; no blessing can come of it. - Basil of Caesarea

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. - Lewis

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor—spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow humans. - Packer

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don’t want, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like. - Gauvreau

Jesus exercised lordship over His disciples, but not with a master’s power over servants; compassionate and tender, He loved them with brotherly love. - Cyprian

What humanity is, Christ was willing to be, that humanity may become what Christ is. - Cyprian

Have holy curiosity. - Einstein

Let’s become like Christ, since Christ became like us. - Gregory of Nazianzus

This is logic.

There is a strong Christian conviction, substantiated by centuries of devout thinking and faithful living, that everything given to us in our bodies and in our world is the raw material for holiness. - Peterson

For Christ-imitating forgiveness is the Bible’s final and only liberating answer to the bondage of resentment and bitterness. - C.J.H. Wright

The eternal love between the Father and the Son is the source from which the love of God overflows into the world in the incarnation of the Son and his death for the life of the world. - Bauckham

Let us sacrifice ourselves to God. Indeed, let’s keep on sacrificing ourselves all day, every day, and every moment. To suffer with Christ, and for Christ, surpasses a life of comfort. - Gregory of Nazianzus