Richard Lovelace
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.Collection: Alone
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.Collection: Children
As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.Collection: Pain
It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.Collection: Spiritual
If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.Collection: Wine
Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.Collection: Spiritual
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.Collection: Grief
Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.Collection: Waiting
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Collection: Animal
Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.Collection: Husband
Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.Collection: Liberty