The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross....

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.

There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan… Jesus is the way, the truth and the life… The Holy Spirit of God is the...

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would...

We may propose many plans, let’s but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering–a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will...

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, recorded by Luke (23.43). ‘Today,’ he said, ‘you will be with me in paradise.’ ‘Paradise’...

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’),...

Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ’s having healed his mother-in-law.

The spirit of Christmas is found when we lift the load of others.

Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.

Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently ‘scientific’ knowledge of God, but to come to know him through the realization that our...

I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun – not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In...

We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is...

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows...

In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow...

Be willing to stand with God and be ready when the world judges you because of that choice. It’s better than to stand with the world for God to judge you!

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a...

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and...

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Yep, there’s special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person’s face and show other people love.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor’s ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of...

You are destiny for greatness. Arise and shine for the glory of God is upon you.

Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also...

Let therefore this PURE LOVE OF CHRIST prompt thee to all that is good; let this be the motive of mortifying thy flesh with all its desires: and let the remembrance of that death which...

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don’t let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression ‘imitators.’ He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression ‘follower’ he always explains...

Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up.

Christ in a Pinata` how have I over complicated the plot?

There are no real personalities apart from God. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self. Sameness is to be found most among the most ‘natural’ men,...

The resurrection of the body – what do we really mean by this? …Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates...

കൌതുകകരമായ ഒരു നിരീക്ഷണം ഇതാണ്.ഭാരതീയ ചാതുര്‍വര്‍ണ്യത്തിന്റെ പാടങ്ങള്‍ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാല്‍ ക്രിസ്തുവിന്റെതു ഏതു വര്‍ണം ? പിറവികൊണ്ടു ക്ഷത്രിയന്‍ -ദാവിദിന്റെ വംശത്തില്‍ ജനിച്ചവന്‍.തൊഴിലുകൊണ്ട് വൈശ്യന്‍ .സംസര്‍ഗം കൊണ്ട് ശൂദ്രന്‍ – വിജാതിയരുടെയും ചുങ്കക്കാരുടെയും ചങ്ങാതി .ധ്യാനം കൊണ്ടും ബലികൊണ്ടും പുരോഹിതന്‍ . ഒരേസമയം നിന്നിലുണ്ടാകണം ഈ ചതുര്മാനങ്ങള്‍ .തോല്‍ക്കുന്ന യുദ്ധങ്ങളില്‍...

True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we...

God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said “No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I’m gonna save this people and restore their...

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

It takes the trust of God for things that exist, to wait on him for the evidence of things that do not exist. Faith and hope make you to thank God for the invisible things...

Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it. Invite God into all twenty-four hours of your day.This is the path of a #StaticJedi.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

creature of God” within us, concealed under a human complex, bruised and torn by original sin, should flower and open out in its full beauty and wealth of talent. Any ascetic discipline that works towards...

May the resurrection power of Christ, awake in us a greater spiritual force and strength, so that we can passionately pursue our God-given dreams.