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.

Here are a few that ministered to me this week:

From a friend’s Facebook:

“Order and beauty are contagious. So are disorder and ugliness. I want my house to reflect the peace and order of heaven.” ~ T. Sparrow

I quoted this post of Challies’ on Saturday, but I wanted to share this quote from it here as well:

Humility is not found in doubting what is true, but in believing that what God says is true is true indeed.

I saw this at Diane’s Facebook:

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could.”— Amy Carmichael

That’s convicting to me because I have a pretty strong “nesting” instinct, which I don’t think is wrong in itself, but I have to remember this world, this home, is not permanent.

From an e-mail devotional of Elisabeth Elliot, taken from her book On Asking God Why:

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why. There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for his meaning, or whether it is a challenge of unbelief and rebellion. The psalmist often questioned God and so did Job. God did not answer the questions, but he answered the man–with the mystery of himself.

From another friend’s Facebook:

“Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.” -C. H. Spurgeon (March 27, Evening)

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.

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