Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.
It’s been a busy week since last time! But I did find a few gems along the way:
I forgot to note where I saw this one:
My complaint is not that I am in the world, but that the world is in me. I cannot get it out of my heart except as I let You in. —John Baird
I like the thought of crowding out the world by letting Christ in — instead of just combating worldliness, following Christ proactively and letting Him fill the space that worldliness would take.
On a friend’s Facebook page:
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” ~Author unknown
From a post of Janet‘s:
Questions about God’s goodness or why He allows suffering are usually asked by comfortable people in comfortable houses with comfortable educations, but they’re answered by those who are walking through the most extreme trials.
Seen at Challies:
In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great. —Thomas Goodwin
If you’ve read anything that particularly spoke to you that you’d like to share, please either list it in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below. I do ask that only family-friendly quotes be included. I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder.
And please — feel free to comment even if you don’t have quotes to share!
Stray Thoughts 
Re: God allowing suffering should not provoke the “Why?” but “Why not?”
My quote:
“If you want to feel rich,
just count the things you have that money can’t buy”
-Proverbs
I always like the variety of the quotes you choose each week. That’s a great mental picture of Christ coming in and the world fleeing out. Thanks for including some of my words too!
Yesterday’s sermon directed me to this passage, spoken by Paul, in Acts 20:
25 “Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. 26 Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. 27 For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.”
Very challenging words about living in such a way as to have no regrets. They seem like good words for the week for me.
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I love your quote about worship! The thing about corporate worship is that being with the bride of Christ should make all of us want to sing, whether we think we can or not!
I like Janet’s quote…I heard recently that if you wish someone a good day with out sharing Christ with them in any way you might as well say “have a nice day…go to hell.” Shocking but not really off, eh? Ouch!
I like that thought too, Barbara, of pushing the world out because we’re filling ourselves so full of Christ.
And the Thomas Goodwin quote too about worship—no worship is too “small”. Makes me feel better about my own offering…
That gem quote is so true.
An lovely perspective on public worship!
No quotes for you today. My saved document with all my gems is temporarily lost. My husband is trying to resurrect that file. Meanwhile, no quotes!
Have a blessed week,
~e-Mom ღ
I love the quote by John Baird. It’s true…the only way to get the world out of us is to replace it with Jesus!
I must have been skimming Janet’s post, because I completely missed the part you quoted. But what a very true thought. How we comfortable ones are apt to question the goodness of God, while our brothers and sisters who endure far worse are trusting in His goodness. Makes you wonder whether we really know what “goodness” means.