-David Shepherd, as quoted in Shattered Dreams
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Inspiring. Difficult.
"Faith, as I am growing to understand it more, is about looking beyond my circumstances to a person. To have faith in better circumstances, even in God creating better circumstances, is not true faith. I want to be the kind of man who can watch every dream go down in flames and still yearn to be intimately involved in kingdom living, intimately involved with my friend the King, and still be willing to take another risk just because it delights Him for me to do so. And my flesh shivers to think about it."
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Thank you for this. Needed to hear it today.
ReplyDeleteI love this quote in Shattered Dreams. I wanted to share a quote with you from G.K. Chesterton that I think you will enjoy. Love you, friend.
ReplyDeleteForgiveness, Faith, and Hope:
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
On Charity and Hope:
Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope.
The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse.
It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice.
It is the undeserving who require it and the ideal either does not exist at all or exists wholly for them.
For practical purposes, it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man and the virtue either does not exist at all or begins to exist at that moment.
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.