In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road totheological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of...

Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual...

if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow...

When we hold firmly to God’s truth, work through the difficult issues and challenges, and become clear in our understanding of the whys and the wherefores, we can truly say, without fear and without embarrassment,...

Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as – and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be – lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of...

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness and express real altruism....

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends

If my name were C. Ross, I’d definitely be religious.

God defines himself as “I am who I am”, which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

These days there are more fake Christians than real Christians.

And now, we have no option. We can’t say ‘maybe’ ‘it’s possible’ ‘it looks very probable…’ No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is...

…Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably...

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

Well, I’m going to church. But i’ve got to tell you that it’s full of hypocrites.My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope...

That is, I fancy, the true doctrine on the subject of Tales of Terror and such things, which unless a man of letters do well and truly believe, without doubt he will end by blowing...

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

It will not appeal to children.

It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while...

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles...

I want Jesus to come back and say ‘THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'” –

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Don’t argue with the person who puts his knowledge above everyone’s else’s; you’ll always lose in that respect. But, in reality, he is the loser because he has put himself in a position where he...

Sunshine is a light.May the sunshine brighten your path of life.

Once I am alive, I still have the chance to live rightly for the rest of my life.

I am redeemed and saved by grace.

The Christian living is a spiritual welfare. As the year draws to an end, seek the face of the Lord for guidance in the coming year.

We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical [physical] realm what Gods WORKS IN [us] in the mysterious [spiritual] realm. Beware of any spiritual emotion that you do not work out mechanically…

The culmination of current philosophies & worldviews is the ultimate narcissistic arbitration of shame. In the end they fail, being revealed as petty, childish, dead ideologies, entirely unlivable. In stark contrast stands the Christian worldview,...

Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the...

Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.

Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be...

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.

On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had been the conversion of many peoples, whose chiefs or rulers had accepted the...

Očevidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti leđima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se čovjek može klanjati leđa okrenutih prema Auschwitzu. Kao teološko-politička katastrofa Auschwitz ne ostavlja...

I would like to say that I had all kinds of great ideas about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I would like to say my ministry was born...

If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that...

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

If you are sure that you’re going to heaven when you die, you ought to make the most of today. Why live below God’s standards when He has so many wonderful things planned for you?

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That’s not fundamentalism, that’s the...

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by...