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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

Ambrose Of Optina Canon

God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'

Ambrose Of Optina Canon

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Pedro Poveda Castroverde Priest

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Mark Batterson Pastor

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

R. C. Sproul Author

Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

Richard Rohr Priest

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot Philosopher

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character in fiction, and a very interesting one too: one of the greatest and most complex villains of all - savage, petty, boastful and jealous, and yet capable of moments of tenderness and extremes of arbitrary affection - for David, for example. But he's not real, any more than Hamlet or Mr Pickwick are real. They are real in the context of their stories, but you won't find them in the phone book.

Philip Pullman Film Writer

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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