When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.

That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

But God does not neglect his lost creature. He plans to re-create his image in man, to recover his first delight in his handiwork. He is seeking in it his own image so that he...

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools,...

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it....

It fits my experience of Him.

The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ...

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

Unabii ni uwezo alionao mtu wa kuongea mambo matakatifu ya Mungu, kuwaongoza wenzake katika njia njema. Mungu humwambia nabii kitu cha kusema na nabii huwambia wenzake kile ambacho Mungu amemwambia aseme. Mungu hawezi kuongea na...

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew–in the incontestable way that children know things–that God was an author who’d imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed:...

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low...

For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as the day progressed, the grayness receded like a mist, the sky’s...

[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of...

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to...

Sikujui.

Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls—even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all...

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t...

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

I’m not condemning people. God’s going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. … People don’t want to know what I have to...

Oh my God. Oh – my – God.

After your friendship with God, your wife’s friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

Human life is created in God’s image, and that makes it sacred.

But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits...

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.

And I didn’t think you believed in god or a heaven.”Having been here thirty-four days,’ I tell him, ‘I’ve changed my mind, Sydney.”Why’s that then?’ he smiles.’Well, if there’s a hell like this place, then...

slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of...

It was God who gave a man’s rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

God’s greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s...

Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith...

Don’t ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in...

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

the Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

It’s only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us.

‘I don’t believe there is a God’, I said fiercely, ‘and if there is, He’s not the merciful being He’s always depicted, or He wouldn’t be always torturing me for His own amusement.’

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his...

As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.

Jesus came for us, but that doesn’t mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to...

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

And isn’t the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You...

Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.