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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."
A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science
Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.
The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.
It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .
If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.
God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.
As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.
Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.