It is God’s earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man’s body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man...

The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a...

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop...

I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this...

choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road totheological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of...

Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual...

if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

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...

When we hold firmly to God’s truth, work through the difficult issues and challenges, and become clear in our understanding of the whys and the wherefores, we can truly say, without fear and without embarrassment,...

Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as – and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be – lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of...

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness and express real altruism....

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends

If my name were C. Ross, I’d definitely be religious.

Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.

Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge...

The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished.

FOCUS, FOCUS, CONSOLIDATED FOCUS.BEWARE OF DISTRACTION

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

When we truly fear God, our fear of other things and other people begins to wane. Big fears make little fears go away. We can spend our days worrying about a host of daily challenges,...

Love is seeking the good and being the good.

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish...

When we accept God’s invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Many people want God to call them to a big assignment. However, they try to bypass the love relationship…the love relationship is why God created you. That is far more important to Him than what...

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

It is no secret that the world hates Christianity; but when the world runs out of options, they desperately look for God.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Many Christians… find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan’s greatest psychological weapon is a gut...

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

This insistence on a degree of faith in the communicant is also illustrative of Wesley’s belief in the necessity for the co-operation of an active faith in man with the gift of God’s grace to...

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

God loves us mucho, so much that He desires more, much more for us.

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

There is a deep light within my soul.

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested… and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter; it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found...

God hasn’t called us to be successful, just faithful.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

Then a movement began among the people. They creaked to their feet, shuffled and fumbled up to the front, kneeling on the floor, and she saw little Thomas at the beginning of the row. The...

It seems to me some people just go around lookin’ to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

Pour Into My Spirit…spread your arms around meconsole me and keep me close -wield your mighty swordto vanquish all my foes…

No, no, I’m not one of them. I’m one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings and drink single malt Scotch.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in...

When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.