How to Avoid a Broken Heart

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.

Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change.

It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

--From C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 121

Great Quote

The secret formula of the Saints: When I'm in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

-Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

(Puritan Preacher)

Another Quote

The following quote is by Martin Burnham. They were his last words to the Rose Hill Bible Church where he spoke on May 23, 2001 – just days before his return to the Philippines and his capture – were printed on the funeral program:

*"I wasn't called to be a missionary; I wasn't called to the Philippines; I was just called to follow Christ; and that is what I'm doing."

It is my ambition to follow Christ; regardless.

*(I came across this quote over at John Piper's site; desiringgod.org)

Great quote

"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain. but without stain."

-C.S. Lewis

A Prayer by John Owen

“Holy Spirit, please handle this request gently. I know you will. It feels like a risk, but I can hear myself whispering this prayer, ‘I pray with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but…communion with Him.’ I think you are already answering that prayer. Pleasures that used to excite me greatly, now excite me less. I’m feeling more empty, more often.”

-John Owen (Puritan theologian 1616-1663)

Great Quote!

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

-St. Augustine