Effect of Sin

"The effect of sin has been to destroy in the human heart the love of God, and substitute for it the love of unworthy things."

George Burrowes
from A Commentary on the Song of Solomon

Made for another world

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

C. S. Lewis

from Mere Christianity

Look at the Sun of Righteousness

"He who gazes long at the sun becomes unsusceptible of impressions from inferior luminaries; and he who looks much at the Sun of Righteousness will be little affected by any alluring object which the world can exhibit"

Octavius Winslow
from Spiritual Life

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Cultivating a Child-like Imagination

"If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema." Galatians 1:9 (ASV)

"Oh how we need to meditate on the horror of rejecting the Gospel! We will not skim quickly over these verses onto something positive for only positive helps. That's not true. Satan has done an amazing trick in America and in the Western world with television and radio. He has used television and radio, especially the entertainment dimension, to create in our mind a mindset that is so trivial, banal, petty, earthly. We do not have the capacity to feel horror at the word 'anathema'. We don't have the capacity to believe it because we are so numbed by earthiness, by this world. We need, oh how we need, to guard ourselves against the barrage of eternity-denying entertainment and information. And I say that to you who are in the Church, not just to the worldly worldlings. The Church, it seems sometimes, is just as set on getting as much maximum entertainment, day in and day out, as everybody else. And it simply deadens the mind to ultimate reality that ought to stun us with its horror, like the word 'anathema'. We need to try to cultivate a child-like imagination...so that when a reality like 'Let him be accursed' hits us, we experience something like what a little child experiences the first time he hears a peal of thunder that cracks against the lime in his back yard and sends him running. "

John Piper
from When Not to Believe an Angel (Audio Message)

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