All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father’s friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were...

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

The moment we care for anything deeply, the world – that is, all the other miscellaneous interests – becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one’s self “unspotted from the world;”...

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man...

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

Fear is really the sin of unbelief….I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true.

You are free to go, Father,” she whispered. “We are all of us free.” Olivia finally understood what Mr Tugwell had tried to tell her. This was how it was for every fallen crteature. Christ...

A life of hospitality begins in worship, with a recognition of God’s grace and generosity. Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude for God’s love...

Learn from the puppies: Don’t clutter where you live.

Awe-inspiring God.Amazing God.Awesome God.Almighty God.

Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

God’s grace, mighty deeds.

Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan, but at times they have very different ideas about how to run their...

God’s truth!’ one side shouts.’More loving!’ comes the response.’God’s truth!”More loving!”God’s truth!”More loving!’But there shouldn’t be a clash between ‘God’s truth’ and ‘More loving.’ In the Bible, Truth and Love are two sides of the...

Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word “Christian” would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn’t mind if to be a Christian were...

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

Nothing is a masterpiece – a real masterpiece – till it’s about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you’ve got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same...

The original language of Christianity is translation.

Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause...

God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They...

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into...

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I’m simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more...

True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life springing up in the soul with faith and love, hath its beginning out of TRUE CONTRITION. And this contrition...

And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and leads to the consummation, nevertheless, by beginning with this unique event in history,...

I’ve realized, though, we can either choose to be vulnerable or have moments of vulnerability sneak up on us. Like when you’re happily alone, strutting around your house naked, but then hear a sound. Suddenly,...

I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and...

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and the most superstitious of peoples as followers, and the vilest, most ridiculous, and most roguish working man...

For, when the friendship is purely spiritual, the love of God grows with it; and the more the soul remembers it, the more it remembers the love of God, and the greater the desire it...

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God’s prior and original gift of things that are....

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.” I said to her,...

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, ‘I’m not being fed,’ he replies, ‘I’m prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I’m still spoon-feeding him when he’s five, we’ve...

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely...

timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it’s theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or,...

As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man’s heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and...

Our Heavenly Father longs to bless his children in ways we can’t comprehend. Even when we can’t see through our circumstances, we can trust the Lord to meet our needs.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim...

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

if you truly want to know why I’m helping you, you won’t get any easy answers. It’s not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It’s not because I believe God and the rest...

Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of others; theories that demonstrate that their particular group has been exclusively...

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.