The Road to Philadelphia

REFLECTION QUOTES

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence and character—that is the goal of true education.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.(1929-1968)


“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”

~William James (1842-1910), American philosopher

“…a ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self …is the mark of Hell.”

~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

“Immediately upon the Fall [of Adam] the mind of man shrunk…into a little point,…closely shut up within itself to the exclusion of others. God was forsaken and fellow creatures forsaken, and man retired within himself and became wholly governed by narrow, selfish principles. Self-love became an absolute master of his soul…”

~Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) in Charity and Its Fruits

“It’s not surprising that communication between human beings is so difficult, considering that so much of what each of us feels most deeply can’t help but seem the merest trivia to almost everyone else.”

~Alden Nowlan (1933-1983), Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright

“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”

~John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist

“One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.”

“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

~Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990), famed American Psychiatrist

“You have to be willing to look bad in order to get good.”

~Jack Canfield (1944-present), American motivational speaker and author

SERMON PASSAGE

1 Peter 1:22-2:5 (NASB)

22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word which was preached to you.

Chapter 2

1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.