Through Christ we have a new identity–we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.

Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,’ said Birbal, ‘and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He...

One who knows everything is the one who knows nothing.

But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired

Schwester Marie–Claire hatte in ihrem Ethikunterricht stets behauptet, es käme gar nicht darauf an, dass die Menschen an den Teufel glaubten, denn es reiche schon aus, dass der Teufel gute Gründe hätte an die Menschen...

Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man. Every victory we seemed to win has led us, step by step, to this conclusion. All Nature’s...

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.

You’ve gone through this in a remarkable way, … I’m convinced you will be (chief justice), God willing, for 40 years. And that even concerns me more because it means that my vote means more.

God always knows our conscious, if it’s bad He will stricken it, if it’s good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you’re dead to God.

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but...

Some of God’s greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I’ve boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes,...

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It’s an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

I know all about the repair of overcoming chronic temptations. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc. don’t get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo...

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

I’d bump into something cool God had made, and I’d promptly tell Him all about what I’d found and bombard Him with questions about it.

I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His suffering and death lose all value in their eyes, ‘because it must have been so easy for him.’...

And to be here as the man I am now is just a testimony to what God can do in people’s lives.

Perfectionism doesn’t have much to do with sanctity.

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing...

You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…

God didn’t create you to think, act, and walk like an inferior person; instead, He created you to constantly see yourself in all circumstances as being special as everyone else.

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to...

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what “others” affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of...

Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.

Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn’t have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us.

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.

The Palestinian people will be our leaders and we will want to follow the path of the great Palestinian people who have showed us how to resist. Our main guide will be the teachings of...

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless...

Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is...

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.

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn’t stopped believing in God. I’d just stopped believing God cared. There might be a...

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because...

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and...

Love is shapeless and colorless and tasteless and odorless. But so is God, so how can you believe in one and not the other?

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.