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In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.
A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.
I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?
When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.
Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.
A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.
The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives
I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment.
In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.