With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Are You still there?” and suddenly all was made well between them.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, distant state of bliss which if...

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him–this is all!

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Denying God is admitting our ignorance, our spiritual limitation and blindness

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media’s insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn’t as...

n life You have two choices, you can stay where you are and be miserable forever or you will fly and free yourself and be happy.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

If you have never known the power of God’s love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it – I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the...

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

I only run from darkness when I’m not confident in my ability to shine.

To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. A rich man bestows, on a poor and famishing...

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.

The more I pray, the more I feel God’s comfort.

post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each...

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits...

First we must understand that all of the world’s deceptions flow from the belief that love is primarily for the fulfillment and comfort of the self. The world poisons love by focusing first and foremost...

For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ’s death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been...

Faith is confident trust in God and the salvation He provides in His Son Jesus Christ.

I have traveled millions of miles, speaking to Christians. I have counseled privately with hundreds of them about their beliefs and lifestyles. What I have found has to be one of the most tragic ironies...

To say that you know more about sin than God knows, then your license on your life has expired.

But you must still know to respect other people’s faith.”Why? We don’t respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they’re Christ, yet we’re supposed to humour those who believe in him.”By definition,...

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn’t a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christians are welcome to believe it and others are welcome not to believe it. Take it away, and the whole picture...

You did not invent marriage. God did.

When you don’t know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

The authority of the Scriptures does not depend on the decision of the church or the individual to validate it. To paraphrase the Westminster Confession, we receive it as the word of God because of...

Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.

Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of “the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally.” Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from...

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic...

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...