Christian Quotes
Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.
Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name
A few stars were approaching and in their brightness I glimpsed a fragment of your vanished soul – cheerful and frivolous, unforgettable.
But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY
Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.
...the triune God will indwell the world in a divine way - the world will indwell God in a creaturely way.
There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.
There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.
God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.
With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.
He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.
The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.
I see that you get all your info on Catholicism from thriller novels.
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
The Christian coach keeps ethics in perspective by aligning his principles and values with his biblical worldview, endeavoring to see things from God's point of view.
Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit brings peace to your mind and heart as you uncover and make the right choice and align yourself with professional, ethical standards.
A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.
Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?
A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.
The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.
We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.
The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two thousand years ago because he is alive right now.
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.
A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.
When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.
There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
Your private self must become the same as your public self.
The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.
We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it.
He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars.
When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.
I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
so dangerously beautiful but you will not dare to ask her or tell her how you feel love hurts in the worst ways
If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.
Our heavenly Father is great in mercy, He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from himFor our Lord clothes the grass of the field.