God is not interested in your art but, your heart.

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O’Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea...

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

Locate your place in God. It is a place of GOLD

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn’t reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Do you know why I believe in the Lord Jesus and what He says? Because He has proved to me that He has my best interests at heart. What could He do that He did...

There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one–brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter– eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy...

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a...

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.

I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome itself ends, our mode of life ends, the distinction between conquered and conqueror,...

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no...

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward...

It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieval-properly-postmodern model, we rightly give up pretensions...

Jesus Christ of Nazareth remains our solid Rock.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

The God of Christians raped mother of his messenger according to their manifest; later, their followers’ burned and tortured women like their fellow delusional God. The God of Muhammad hated women; he considered them half...

My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away.

Hold fast to your faith.Keep your hope in the Lord.Embrace the love of God.

The Bible, divine thoughts of God.

I cannot protect my children from my weaknesses. As hard as I may try, at some point my sin will affect their lives. However, the way I deal with my failure can provide an example...

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

Exchanging life with Jesus Christ as taught by Jesus and His designated witnesses is not following a set of laws, rules, codes, principles, disciplines, scripts or cookbook formulas in our own power in an attempt...

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But...

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus’ touch. We experience his care.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times...

When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully...

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord’s table, no demand for purity of life?

They seemed happy and at peace. I knew the feeling for the first time.

Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_, solidarity requires more intentional commitment and performance than does community.

Have you ever had God lay hold of you in the wee hours and reduce you until you had ‘Nothing left to do but fling/Care aside and simply cling?’ (Crowded to Christ, p. 29).

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay...

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise...

He is the Way.Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness;You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures.He is the Truth.Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety;You will come to a great city that has...

One should preach not from one’s rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches...

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

The nature of God’s plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction

Love only fails when we fail to love.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can’t stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow...