Yehoshua Shim’onai

Through common sense, you understand the basic things about life. And through faith, you know that there is One True God who authored these basic things. And also through faith, you understand that God works through both natural and supernatural ways to accomplish His wonderful plan.

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YEHOSHUA SHIM’ONAI

I marvel at these two paradoxes that I recently realized; the first one perplexes me and the second one terrifies me:
– the first one is that even though God absolutely has no need of me, He does care for me in the richness of His grace;
– the second one is that even though I am totally dependent on His mercy, I despise Him in my sinfulness.

yehoshua shim’onai

I have once said that time is like a scroll that is still unrolling before man but is already completely spread out before its Creator; but I will revise this quote:

History is like a scroll that is still unrolling before man but is already completely spread out before its Author.

yehoshua shim’onai

Give me a thousand reasons to hate you and I will remind myself a thousand times about that one reason why I love you.

yehoshua shim’onai

No color, position, or activity can make a man more than a man. He is just a man; nothing more.

yehoshua shim’onai

I don’t look at a Christian by his theology. I look at him by how Christ has changed him from the inside out. I may not fully agree with his theology, but I will love him because he is my brother.

Virginia Woolf

Never did I read such tosh. As for the first two chapters we will let them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th—merely the scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges.