I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a “new creation”, capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that...

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Just as a detective builds a case by adding evidence, or a physician arrives at a diagnosis by considering multiple symptoms and tests, anyone can arrive at a meaningful conclusion based on a cumulative case....

What do you think destiny is? A smooth path that never jostles you? No. When you walk in your destiny, you will crash and fall more times than you can count. But the secret is...

L’ideologie chrétienne n’a pas peu contribué à l’oppression de la femme.

Don’t think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.

Has Christ provided such a blessed banquet for us? He does not nurse us abroad—but feeds us with His own breast—nay, with His own blood! Let us, then, study to respond to this great love...

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains...

It is not possible to be ‘incidentally a Christian.’ The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain...

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.

The devil is a bad devil.

You can not love someone you do not appreciate and you can not appreciate what you do not see.

Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same...

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take...

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´The corners of Callahan’s mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend...

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort who lets no sigh escape him. Of His great humility He chose to be incarnate in a man...

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things — otherwise I’ve miscounted.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion.

We tend to be taken aback by the thought that God could be angry. how can a deity who is perfect and loving ever be angry?…We take pride in our tolerance of the excesses of...

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th’ dustNor...

I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.

I not only want to understand God’s revelations, I want to be changed by them.

When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that...

EVROPI, OD POCETKA TAMNOG VIJEKA, CETVRTOG VIJEKA NESRECE COVJECANSTVA,PRIPADA KRST, NA KOJU SE SAMA ZAKUCAVA

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an...

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay...

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and bereaved His mother that He might heal all bereavement. He came...

I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.

Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power...

The higher Christian churches…come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures...

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed...

Blue skies or dark night, one truth still holds: God has you. And this is the promise He has made to you: He will never let you go.

The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves...

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.’ (John 21:20-22)

About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate. Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything...

Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too ‘Western.’ It was...

It is my belief that when a child has been robbed of their visionary rights that they gravitate toward religion and spirituality in an effort to regain their Subjective autonomy.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find...

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the...

Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That’s all most of them mean by ‘Christian.