Hi there! I'm Maria, Welcome to Whispers of His Love blog! I pray you’ll be encouraged and blessed by the contents of this site and hope you’ll check back often! Be sure to leave me a message to let me know you stopped by.
This blog is dedicated to my best friend and Saviour.
He died for me, I live for Him.
"It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness, it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good, who live happily ever after, and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, becomes know by his true name ... That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is that the claim made for it is that it is true, that it not only happened once upon a time but has kept on happening ever since and is happening still." (Frederick Buechner, "Telling the Truth")
"This is the Gospel. This is the Story we are living. May you play your part well." (John Eldredge, "Epic")
“Now – here is my secret:
I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I will ever achieve again, so I pray you are in a quite room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me to give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love."
(Douglas Coupland, "Life After God")
“A fool for Christ’s sake”
"If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business, and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business. The world says, Follow the wisest course and be a success, and Jesus says, Follow me and be crucified. The world says, Drive carefully - the life you save may be your own - and Jesus says, Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The world says, Law and order, and Jesus says, Love. The world says, Get, Jesus says, Give. In terms of the world's sanity, Jesus is as crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks he can follow Him without being a little crazy too is labouring less under the cross than under delusion. "We are fools for Christ's sake," Paul says, faith says - the faith that ultimately the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, the lunacy of Jesus saner than the grim sanity of the world."
(Frederick Buechner)
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
"Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness.....
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?"
(T.S Eliot)
"The people who crucified Jesus did not do so because He was a bore. Quite the contrary; He was too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have declawed the lion of Judah and made Him a housecat."
(Dorothy Sayers)
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