THE HOST is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream. The winds awaken, the leaves...

When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw’st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and...

He is all my salvation and all my desire,” that man is not only in danger of beinglost, but he is already condemned; because, in fact, he believes not on the Son of God! He...

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more...

They may call you “Stupid” because of what you’ve done in the past. Hey, you are going to be “Prominent” because of what the Lord has done. The stupid “S” in Saul was exchange to...

Jesus is the seed of salvation and we are the fruit of redemption

Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman’s beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to...

If you have never been saved,you need to stop right where you are and admit to God that you are a sinner in need of salvation. Then ask Him for the gift of eternal life...

It wasn’t a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and power.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man’s Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in...

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

I wish I could have saved you,” he says finally. And this is what it always comes back to. Salvation. Him saving me. Me saving him. Impossibilities, because there is no such thing, and it’s...

Sorti de la bibliothèque, il serre sous son bras les trésors empruntés. La lumière des réverbères permet de commencer la lecture dans la rue. La psyché du futur philosophe se nourrit de ce monde inédit,...

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something...

The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak...

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.”(Against Fortunatus)

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

They made me one of them, a part of a family in a way I never had been before. Beyond gratitude and obligation, I chose them. I chose them because they love me, because they...

Only a “dry as dust” religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks...

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

…stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the...

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly...

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

[It] could be argued that the favorite sin of Satan would not be vanity, as described in ‘Devil’s Advocate’, or even unbelief in the existence of the devil, as described in ‘The Usual Suspects,’ but...

Marriage is one salvation pathway among many, although it contains different possibilities.

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!

when men tarry in the place of prayer with broken hearts and wounded souls thirsty to reach out then revival is at the door post

You are the individual and the entire Universe.

To be saved is to believe in one’s own courage.

…if you’re walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they’ll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Scripture also makes clear that our faith is not a work. Our new status is based wholly on the merits of Christ and not on anything about us. While a paintbrush may be the instrumental...

Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon–the song of God’s miraculous firmament–might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ’s love and sacrifice.

We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don’t want a relationship with the living God. By trying to...