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. The source can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

This is from a friend’s Facebook page:

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. – Ogden Nash

So true! I am constantly thinking people look familiar and wondering if I know them.

This is from Semicolon:

“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”~E.P. Whipple

This thought-provoking quote was shared by Bobbi at Blogging Along:

“I would like to buy about three dollars worth of gospel, please. Not too much– just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I get addicted. I don’t want so much gospel that I learn to really hate covetousness and lust. I certainly don’t want so much that I start to love my enemies, cherish self-denial, and contemplate missionary service in some alien culture. I want ecstasy, not repentance; I want transcendence, not transformation… I would like enough gospel to make my family secure and my children well behaved, but not so much that I find my ambitions redirected or my giving too greatly enlarged. I would like about three dollars worth of gospel, please.”

–D.A. Carson, Basics For Believers: An Exposition of Philippians

I am not familiar with the book or author, but that is convicting on many levels. So often people want the comfort and blessing of the gospel without the radical change it is supposed to make in lives.

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