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.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God’s grace and is...

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part...

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all.

Not all paths lead to God, but God can lead any path to himself. This God will dine with anyone.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good...

Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization ─ Hey, let’s elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism ─ Jesus...

I don’t want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God’s heart.

I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it’s as new and fresh as if it...

Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives. This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom: If you ask and receive not, it must be because there is something amiss or wanting in...

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It’s not that extroverts can’t communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it’s that introverted seekers need to know and see that it’s possible...

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is...

Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity!

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough… [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

I am going to be blunt now, but I feel it is warranted: Christians who aren’t willing to confess their faults to each other are either full of pride, or they have no clue of...

There is an irony in how Christians talk about and understand sexuality. Christians often lament the world’s reductionism of sex to genital interaction and raw physical pleasures, but then they typically reduce a gay person’s...

Be an active participant in your own life. Stop being a bystander. Lead yourself to success.

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you’re not really praying. You’re just pontificating.You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

Of course it’s dangerous. But it’s a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don’t do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look...

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until...

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you...

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that...

It’s a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey...

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to...

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip...

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!

The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth’s location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at...

During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead...

Being a Christian doesn’t mean trouble never comes our way, Zach. It just means God is here, and He gives us the grace to get through the heartache.

I am important to God and He makes my life profitable.

Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

A sheep walking in a dark forest one sheep found him and bring him to shepherds house but he didn’t realize there still wolves in that place, he run into the dark forest and still...

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there,...