Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

In the modern world, we are primarily confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of people turning to new ideals because they have not tried the old. Men have not gotten tired of Christianity; they have never...

In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message to be true, we need to surrender to God and change our lives. For that reason – whether or...

We shouldn’t go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe.

Do not ill-treat or take advantage of foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow- brother, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners...

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.

Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us…. More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents...

The Bible is a life giving word.

May you find new opportunities in every encounter.

For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring, in a manner transfuses its substance into it, why should the radiance of...

Great soul; start and end your day with God.

May God fill you with much joy and peace of mind.

If America upholds God’s eternal standards and follows His unchanging ways, then it will be blessed with His favor…His protection…His prosperity….But if America should depart from the ways of God, if it should disregard His...

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the...

I think we need to say, ‘Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get...

The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the homosexuals, which would be amusing were it not so tragic. Families...

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.

On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what...

We have a value based life because we have a vision of heaven.

Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-formed. The closer you get...

We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God’s Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the...

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

Throughout God’s acts revealed in history, from creation to the exodus to the exile to redemption and on into the consummation, we discern a clear pattern: every good gift comes from the Father, in the...

He forgives without any strings attached.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of...

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a...

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who...

Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the historical Jesus.

That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place,...

Jesus confronted many of the important issues of His time. He went into the temple, taught the New Testament message, and took action against those who were buying and selling on holy ground. He healed...

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.

In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the...

God did not create you to fail!

Whatever characterization one may choose to place on Satan, “imbecile message maker” doesn’t fit. This was no third-ranking demon out there in the wilderness throwing lines at Christ. This was the manic master who understood...

Don’t be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You ‘re engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility

Shaking his head to clear away the memories, he rose to pull the net from the water. it broke the surface just as the first rays of sunrise began to paint the edge of the...

No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because He is Love, but because we are intrinsically lovable. The Pagans obeyed this...

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

The recognition of a distinct ‘national identity’ among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend...

Those who do not know that this great myth became Fact when the Virgin conceived are, indeed, to be pitied. But Christians also need to be reminded – we may thank Corineus for reminding us...

If we could learn to trust and rest and be instead of always striving to do, we would find ourselves face to face with some of life’s most perplexing paradoxes. First, that transformation comes only...