4 of My Favorite Quotes - July 2025 Edition

I.

We must not judge of ourselves always according to present feeling, for in temptations we shall see nothing but smoke of distrustful thoughts. Fire may be raked up in the ashes, though not seen. Life in the winter is hid in the root.

-Richard Sibbes “The Bruised Reed”

II.

“Everyone’s chasing some sort of finish line. But what if you, just today, just made the decision, because they’re all decisions…I already won. I’ve already won. That’s it. The rest of life is simply after the finish line”

-Simon Sinek on the “Modern Wisdom Podcast”

III.

If we believe our talent is fixed and our worth is variable, we’ll live in fear. If we believe our worth is fixed and our talent is variable, we’ll live in growth.

-John Ortberg “Steps”

IV.

The Spirit sometimes has secret operations in us which we know not for the present, but Christ knows.

-Richard Sibbes “The Bruised Reed”