Real love doesn’t meet you at your best.
It meets you in your mess.
— J.S.
Art by 1of1doodles
Tag: art
Overcoming the Fear of Moving Forward.
The fear of moving forward is often obliterated by moving forward. Do it scared.
— J.S.
Art by Pam Carbungco
What the Bible Says.
Scripture isn’t supposed to make you a jerk. It doesn’t matter if “the Bible says.” If you’re a jerk about it, you don’t actually care what the Bible says.
— J.S.
Art by 1of1doodles
Hang In There.
The Story of Us.
“My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.”
— Frederick Buechner
Where Love Can Go.
Rolls The Stone Away.
In darkness, He rolls the stone away.
At your worst, He loves you anyway.
— J.S.
An Artist Turned My Words Into Art.
This is the first time anyone has ever made art out of my words. A quote from my book. I’m absolutely amazed by the beautiful skill and artistry, and the fact that anyone would make art out of anything I’ve said. Thank you so much, Alyssa!
Alyssa’s Tumblr blog and Instagram! Her art is incredible.
“In your crushed swollen chest where the hurt pulls in: Christ comes to fill the broken places like so much water in cracked earth, new breath stretching your lungs, so we may thrive and bloom and stand on our shaking feet again.
Turn. He is there.”
My book What The Church Won’t Talk About is here.
If You Were To Love God.
“Ask yourself, ‘If I were sure that I loved God, what would I do?’ When you have found the answer, go and do it.”
— C.S. Lewis
Ask For God’s Help.
“You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”
— C.S. Lewis
And The More I Considered Christianity.
“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Friendship Is Born.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
— C.S. Lewis
Suffering and Glory.
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
— Romans 8:18
The Characters of Romance Vs. Real Life
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly … if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”
— G.K. Chesterton
To Be Good or To Be Christian.
Being a Christian doesn’t mean being a good person. It means following the Only One who is good.
— J.S.
Grace Is For You, Too.
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
— Philippians 3:12-14
Like John or Like Judas.
“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
— C.S. Lewis
Let Your Religion.
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Love Sees Greatness.
Love sees a greatness in someone who cannot see it in themselves.
— J.S.
True All Along.
“All along, I was worse than I thought. But all long, I was more loved than I thought.”
— Timothy Keller
J.S. Park: Hospital Chaplain, Skeptical Christian 