America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be...

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It’s like a sickness. A control sickness.

Life is awesome because you’re in it. You were created for such a time as this. Let your light shine!

While it may be impossible to ‘disprove’ the existence of some ‘Higher Power’ or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions...

I often ask myself, ‘Who would Jesus vote for?’ Then I start to think that he wouldn’t vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and...

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a...

While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have morphed into perfectionism so focused on itself that we forget about others in...

Most Kids Are Confused Whether School Is More Important Than God Or God Is More Important.

I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I...

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as...

The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he “glories”.

God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

You cannot win the future if you don’t forgive your past

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

…Make God’s Word your Sourcebook…

Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this...

What use would God have for a sinner like me?’ ‘We’re all sinners’ Lilly said. ‘The ground at the foot of the cross is even.

No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.

Let God take your hurt, your pain, and turn it into something miraculous!

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

Jesus is a descendant of David, the beloved of God. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who was born into this world and died and rose again. Saint John calls him the Word...

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

In all poor countries, where general culture is not very advanced, monasteries give to the masses the silence, poetry and music, for which their souls unconsciously yearn. As soon, however, as a people grows prosperous,...

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion… perhaps around their...

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

This is a paradox of Whitefield’s legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Live life in the power of the Holy Spirit.

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side,...

The greatest and the best Christians when they are physically weak are more prone to an attack of spiritual depression than at any other time and there are great illustrations of this in the Scriptures.

Faith-Defined beyond the confines of the mind.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable,...

You can always count on the promise of forever that He made when He died on that cross and rose again three days later. He did that for you.

At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client’s back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion....

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Over the past thirty-five years, untold numbers of gay Christians have turned from God in their “failure” and “inability to please God,” who, they were told, could not accept them as a gay person. Some...

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn’t simply a matter of being forced now to be...

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my...

Modern Christianity, in dramatic reversal of its biblical form, promises to relieve the pain of living in a fallen world. Then message, whether it’s from fundamentalists requiring us to live by a favored set of...