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I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.
The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.
For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.
I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.