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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.
God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.
Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.
It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.