Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umanoalbergo in questa pianta rozza e dura,ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano,che lassi i membri a piè de l’alte mura,astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano,non so...

The renewing of the mind, like a home improvement project, is a taking off and putting on. You take off the old self. You put on the new self. You takes off the lies. You...

As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there...

To work and study is the most difficult thing to do as I had always said,but to be a christian is second to none in terms of difficulty.

Perceptive people like you wound more easily than others. But if we’re going to work on God’s side, we have to decide to open our hearts to the griefs and pain all around us. It’s...

The Didache is the earliest known document outside the NT to identify the problem of settled faith communities in conflict with traveling, itinerant preachers and prophets. The Didachist does not doubt the validity of such...

Money is sacred as everyone knows… So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form...

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot...

They here shall be redeemed from sin,Shall here put on their glorious dress,Fine linen, pure, and white, and cleanThe saints’ inherent righteousness.Love, perfect love, expels all doubt,Love makes them to the end endure;Their names thou...

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

time heals all wounds.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Time won’t heal all wounds. Jesus will. By His wounds, we are healed. That’s what this book is all about. There is a real...

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly...

Under the leadership of religious professionals, modern worship has become passive—listening to a message and singing some songs. Seldom is there a call to service or an invitation to trust Christ. Baptisms take place inside...

God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…

There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me...

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen; to pray is to see and breathe.

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.

The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it...

In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has very little to do with truth. Christianity is only about feeling...

You won’t be where you are forever. God promises that when you trust him, he’ll take care of you wherever you are and get you to where he wants you to go.

Global citizenship means simply being willing to focus on the game, to notice the world and the people in it. It does not mean noticing your world, but the world. It means being conscious of...

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some...

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of...

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the...

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime....

I’ve been a Christian since I was a little girl. But my Christianity is a muddy mess of thoughts and opinions and making God into what works for me-like going shopping at the mall and...

In every problem there is opportunity to win or lose, rise or fall…Ur actions or reactions are the deciding factor

If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove...

This is a time when all of God’s people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

I believe in God, because he believes in me.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.

God had listened to my little-girl prayers back then and had orchestrated the events of my life, even the painful ones, to produce a present reality beyond my greatest hopes. How great were His ways...

From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which...

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God’s value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in...

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity’s modernity and its appropriation of...

May we be zealous for more of God.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Giving is the only way to receive more.

Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?

Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.

God has enough blessing for every individual.