The choice between marriage and celibacy is not the choice between intimacy and loneliness, or at least it shouldn’t be. … We need to rediscover a biblical category of intimacy that has been neglected in our cultural context and sadly even in many of our churches – friendship.

— Sam Allberry, “7 Myths About Singleness”

LOVE IS being unwilling to make any personal decision or choice that would harm a relationship, hurt the other person, or weaken the bond of trust between you.

— (Paul Tripp, Weekly Devotional)

Many of us are less busy than we think, but life feels constantly overwhelming because our days and weeks have no rhythm. One of the dangers of technology is that work and rest blend together in a confusing mush … We’re never completely ‘on’ and never totally ‘off’.

— Kevin DeYoung, “Crazy Busy”

Karl Barth once wittily remarked, “One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.

— ” Sinclair Ferguson, “The Trinitarian Devotion of John Owen”

About the piteous fading of the mind, someone has said, ‘It is sometimes the Father’s way to put His child to bed in the dark’; but the child will waken very happy in the morning. … However shadowed the ‘going to bed’ of the Father’s child may be, the awakening will be radiant.

— Amy Carmichael, “Gold by Moonlight”

The apostles began teaching the early Christians about the struggle with evil – that they must stand firm, resist, and wrestle. Their teaching is found in the New Testament. They wrote about this conflict with optimism and even a hint of joy. They were not retreating with fear but advancing with confidence.

‘ God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!’ (Ro 16:20)

— Cliff Boone, “Christ Victorious”

LOVE IS the willingness to make regular and costly sacrifices for the sake of a relationship without asking for anything in return or using your sacrifices to place the other person in your debt.

— (Paul Tripp, Weekly Devotional)

It’s easy to find people who think work is good and leisure is bad (i.e., you rest to work). Also people who think leisure is good and work is bad (i.e., you work to rest). But according to the Bible, both work and rest can be good if they are done to the glory of God. Both have their place. The hard part is putting them in the right places.

— Kevin DeYoung, “Crazy Busy”

If I am united to Christ, then all that is his is mine. So long as my heart, will and mind are one with Christ’s in his word, I can approach God with the humble confidence that my prayers will be heard and answered.

— Sinclair Ferguson, “The Christian Life”

— Cannot we, His foolish ones and blind, bid our restless questions be still awhile? It is only for a little while … Amy Carmichael, “Gold by Moonlight”