My Cloud
Herein are those who've most shaped my journey & writings - witnesses to the life of faith...
George Macdonald
"It is the heart not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence."
G.K. Chesterton
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
Toyohiko Kagawa
"On the morning of 1946, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, before Emperor Hirohito, "Whosoever will be great among you...shall be the servant of all. A ruler's sovereignty, Your Majesty, is in the hearts of the people. Only by service to others can a man, or nation, be godlike."
Frederick Buechner
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
Paul Tournier
“We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross”
Pastor Chuck Smith
“Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.”
Dennis Prager
"With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset."
Dallas Willard
“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?”
“When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.”
Greg Boyle
“Sometimes you need to walk in the gang member's door, in order to introduce him to a brand new door. You grab what he finds valuable and bend it around some thing else, a new form of nobility. You try to locate his moral code and conform to a new standard that no longer includes violence in the harboring of enemies.
Tattoos on the Heart
Bob Dylan
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
“He’s got plans of his own - to set up his throne…”
Mr. Rogers
“You can be an agent of good and not have to be terribly direct about it.”