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| User: | ryft (706835) Ryft Braeloch's Journal
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| Name: | Ryft Braeloch | |||||
| Website: | www.kyriosity.ca | |||||
| Location: | Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada | |||||
| Birthdate: | 01-03 | |||||
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| Bio: | "In many ways, sin is the punishment for sin. The more I choose against God’s design and give in to my sinful desires, the more I suffer... even if I never get caught, even if no one else knows." Philip Yancey "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says in the end, Thy will be done." C. S. Lewis "There are thousands of professing Christians who think they have been justified, who think their sins are forgiven and that they are on their way to heaven, who show no evidence of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in their lives." Jerry Bridges "People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated." D. A. Carson "There is in each of us a hard core of pride or self-centeredness which corrupts our best achievements and blights our best experiences. It comes out in all sorts of ways -- in the jealousy which spoils our friendships, in the vanity we feel when we have done something pretty good, in the easy conversion of love into lust, in the meanness which makes us depreciate the efforts of other people, in the distortion of our own judgment by our own self-interest, in our fondness for flattery and our resentment of blame, in our self-assertive profession of fine ideals which we never begin to practice." Malcolm Muggeridge "You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now." Fred Smith "Belief and conduct are inextricably bound together." Lionel Spencer Thornton "Satan doesn't care if you believe in God. He does, however, care how much you love, trust and obey him." Unknown "Losing faith in a childish understanding of God is not the same as losing faith in God." Harold Kushner "The demand that God should forgive such a man while he remains what he is, is based on a confusion between condoning and forgiving. To condone an evil is simply to ignore it, to treat it as if it were good. But forgiveness needs to be accepted as well as offered if it is to be complete: and a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness." C. S. Lewis "But for the religious mind and soul, the issue has never been the existence of God but the importance of God, the difference that God makes in the way we live. To believe that God exists the way that you believe the South Pole exists, though you have never seen either one, to believe in the reality of God the way you believe in the Pythagorean theorem as an accurate abstract statement that does not really affect your daily life, is not a religious stance. A God who exists but does not matter, who does not make a difference in the way you live, might as well not exist." Harold Kushner "A curious warning is given to us in Peter's first epistle. There he tells us to be ready to give the reason for the hope that lies within us to everyone who asks. Now, what's strange about that passage is this: no one ever asks ... Yet God tells us to be ready, so what's wrong? To be blunt, nothing about our lives is worth asking about." John Eldredge "I am angry at Christians, including myself, for allowing ourselves to be so compromised that the world can no longer tell what difference it makes to worship the Trinity." Stanley Hauerwas "Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy." Dietrich Bonhoeffer "hypocrite (noun): someone who is not himself on Sundays." Unknown | |||||
| Memories: | 20 entries | |||||
| Interests: | 145: ♥, adobe photoshop, al pacino, american idol, angelina jolie, anthony hopkins, apologetics, art, avril lavigne, battlestar galactica, bittorrent, blogging, books, brad paisley, brad pitt, british columbia, c. s. lewis, calvinism, camping, canada, canadians, casting crowns, cats, charlize theron, chatting, christianity, coffee, comedy, computers, cornelius van til, creativity, csi, cuddling, darkness, dean koontz, debate, devotion, disturbed, douglas adams, drawing, dreams, dreamweaver, driving, edward zwick, epistemology, faith, faithfulness, family, fanfiction, fiction, fideism, firefox, flirting, friends, god, gothic girls, graphic design, greg bahnsen, greg bear, hiking, honesty, horseback riding, horses, hugs, insomnia, intelligence, internet, irc, james cameron, jennifer connelly, jessica sierra, jesus, jesus christ, john frame, john grisham, john logan, john piper, johnny depp, julia roberts, karaoke, kissing, kutless, learning, leonardo dicaprio, limewire, linkin park, livejournal, love, meg ryan, metaphysics, michael crichton, michael w. smith, mindy smith, mirc, movies, mp3s, music, night, non-fiction, opening axe, philosophy, piano, presuppositionalism, prose, r. c. sproul, rain, rationality, reading, reason, reformed theology, religion, ridley scott, robert deniro, robin williams, romance, ron howard, russel crowe, saturday, science fiction, singing, sleeping, softball, spirituality, star trek, steven spielberg, summer, talking, theism, theology, thinking, third watch, thunder, thunderbird, thunderstorms, tim mcgraw, tom hanks, tulip, téa leoni, walking, web design, will smith, william lane craig, windows xp, writing, writing fics | |||||
| Schools: | Quamichan Middle School - Duncan, BC, Canada (1987 - 1988) Carihi Secondary - Campbell River, BC, Canada (1989 - 1990) North Island College - Campbell River, BC, Canada (1996 - 1997) | |||||
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |||||
