“Each separate experience of individual stripping we may learn to accept as a fragment of the suffering Christ bore when He took it all. “Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” This grief, this sorrow, this total loss that empties my hands and breaks my heart, I may, if I will, accept, and by accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer. And so I give it back to Him, who in mysterious exchange gives Himself to me.” -Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes

“Sound doctrine is important, and something every Christian should strive after. However, the importance of sound doctrine pales when compared to the importance of a heart turned towards Christ by the power of the Gospel. Any man can have the former, while only a man who has been born again of the Spirit, and is clothed in Christ’s righteousness, can have the latter.-stolen from Isaac’s status, which is stolen from Matt Hammer