Welcome to Crossquotes, a new blog where both thoughts and quotes find shelter. My name is Pastor Bryan Lowe, and I am a Christian, a disciple, and a blogger. And I love quotes, good ones which cause you to stop and soak it all in. I have created this site to help fill a need I see. There are a lot of “quote” sites, tens of thousands. But there is still a need for a quote site with a decisive Christian approach, something that believers can use to encourage and edify.
I intend to rely on you, to collect the quotes that you send me. Quotes that mean something substantial. Send me them, I will edit and post so others can see, and think about. Call me an optimist, but I anticipate Christian believers contributing a great deal.
It may take some time to build and gel this particular vision. But I’m thinking that it will happen sooner then we think. I hope you can think of this site as your site. The power of quotes, infused with wisdom and grace and personal insight can really be potent. I hope this site will direct, inspire and lead us to a deeper awareness of our faith.
Take your tragedies and use them to help those in similar situations. Only someone who has lost a child can truly comfort grieving parents. Only someone who shares a common experience can say to another. “I know how you feel” and be convincing. Let God use you as a “WOUNDED HEALER!” “‘I have prayed for you Peter, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, stengthen your brothers & sisters’” Luke 22:32 That’s me, you, us!
Not only is it our common experiences that give us a point of identificaiton with others, but also through the abundance that we received from God because of the trial. We then have something tangible to give to others.
II Cor. 1:4-5 .. who comforts us in all our triblulation that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. So as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
The Lord gave me this verse after a traumatic birth experience in 1987 and it was fulfilled in 1995 when I became a “doula” or a woman who helps others in birth. Because of this “gift of suffering” I have gone on to comfort and assist more than a hundred women in their births. He redeems…praise him!