Sharing the sufferings of Christ involves the experience of the deep emotions, agony, and passion he continues to experience for the least, the last, and the lost by his indwelling Spirit. All followers of Jesus were once least, last, and lost. When we forget that, we stop feeling.
– Dr. Mark Chironna
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix’d:
’tis fix’d as in a frost;
contracted all, retiring to the breast;
but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
– Alexander Pope
It takes courage to ponder, to puzzle, to wrestle with a new way of thinking.
It takes strength to fully engage feelings without fear of the overwhelming flood.
It takes wisdom to care deeply and still govern oneself wisely.
Charis: Subject to Change 