A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets the cup and saucer between them. But the man doesn’t drink it; he...

…capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism –...

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Were the whole realm of nature mine That were an offering far too small Love so amazing so divine Demands my soul my life my all

Catholic” art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.

The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us; it is an entity in itself.

I Think The Fact That A Human Being Created “Dettol” … A Product Which Protects You 99%You Should Learn That Nothing In This World Can Do It 100% Except God.

These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing...

Even as a man just recovering from illness walks only so far as he is obliged to go, with a slow and weary step, so the converted sinner journeys along as far as God commands...

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in...

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and...

If Jesus didn’t do it, don’t say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don’t say the Father doesn’t.

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).

Jeżeli ludzkość bez wyjątku raz wyrzeknie się Boga (…), to sam przez się, bez ludożerstwa, upadnie cały stary światopogląd, przede wszystkim zaś, cała stara moralność, i nastąpi wszystko nowe. Ludzie zjednoczą się, by wziąć od...

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...

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

What is the Christian’s responsibility to this world? Is the Christian’s responsibility simply, as the “Great Commission” suggests, to share the Good News of God’s Kingdom to others, with the goal of making disciples of...

The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has already ruled in our favor. ‘If God is for us, who can be...

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions often at the expense of the individual person. Just when many are becoming...

Whoever honoured the word of God shall be blessed.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

I have had a lot to put up with,” she said, looking meaningfully at me. “I know the Bible tells us to turn the other cheek but there are only so many cheeks in a...

God remains the same—faithful, loving and powerful—through changes big and small.

The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth.

If you can find your way, a little prayer can help you find the right path.

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry,...

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

The Mass is a mystery,” said Lady Mary slowly. “That means that the more you look into it the more you can find in it, and what you find in it is always love, the...

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does,...

You know, Sage, Jesus didn’t tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord’s Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive...

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

Hospitality is the practice of God’s welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God’s actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to Africa. I’m an American that is black and my　– and I’m proud to...

Besides God, nothing should live in man; besides God, nothing should in man put forth itself: nothing but God himself should appear, operate, will, love, think, speak, act and triumph in him. For if any...

Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an existing understanding of God. Whether you are an agnostic or a fundamentalist —...

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

I believe that dreaming an _impossible_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between _the world-as-it-is_ (reality) and _the world-as-it-ought-to-be_ (ideality) is where a prophetic call_ comes in.

My non-negotiable list remains short. I want a man who loves God, others and me. That’s it. If he loves God, he will be kind and respectful and thoughtful. If he loves others, he will...

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some...

Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given...