Outpost 17

NUMBERS 14-15 / MARK 6:1-32

"Don't put in average effort and claim you want exceptional results." - James Clear

LEVITICUS 18-19 / MATTHEW 27:32-66

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

― C.S. Lewis

LEVITICUS 7-9 / MATTHEW 25:31-46

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

EXODUS 25-26 / MATTHEW 21:1-22

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination. How impossible it is to enact the surrender of the self by doing what we like...”

― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

EXODUS 11-12 / MATTHEW 18:21-35

“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

EXODUS 1-3 / MATTHEW 15:21-39

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

GENESIS 49-50 / MATTHEW 15:1-20

“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?”

― Gordon B. Hinckley

GENESIS 46-48 / MATTHEW 14:22-36

“It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness, it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good, who live happily ever after, and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, becomes known by his true name . . . That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is that the claim made for it is that it is true, that it not only happened once upon a time but has kept on happening ever since and is happening still."

- Frederick Buechner,

GENESIS 44-45 / MATTHEW 14:1-21

“Today is the only day in which we have any power.”

― Steve Maraboli

GENESIS 41 / MATTHEW 13:1-32

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

― Maya Angelou