Thoughts From Others...

Ignatius of Antioch
During His Martyrdom
(117 AD)

I Am The Wheat of God,
And Let Me Be Ground Up
By The Teeth of Wild Beasts,
That I May Be Found The Pure Bread of Christ...
...Let Fire and The Cross;
Let The Crowds of Wild Beasts;
Let Tearings, Breakings and Dislocations of Bones;
Let Cutting Off of Members;
Let Shatterings of The Whole Body;
And Let All The Dreadful Tortures of The Devil Come Upon Me;
Only Let Me Get To Christ


If your heart is free from ill-ordered affection, no good deed will be difficult for you. - Thoms a' Kempis


What The Soul Is In The Body,
That Christians Are In The World

Epistle to Diognetus 130 AD

The Heart is Stretched Through Suffering
And Enlarged

But O' The Agony of This Enlarging of the Heart,
That One May Be Prepared To Enter Into
The Anguish Of Another.

Thomas R. Kelly - A Testament of Devotion

It Has Been Rightly Written That 'uno mystica' (Mystical Union With Christ) Is The Heart of Calvin's Spirituality

John Tyson


BELIEVING WHAT WE SAY WE BELIEVE:

Soren Kierkegaard once said: "Most systematizers stand in the same relation to their systems as the man who builds a great castle and lives in an adjoining shack; they do not live in their great systematic structure. Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in --- otherwise there is something terribly wrong