All Quotes By Tag: Christian

“Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.”

“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

“I don’t try to figure out what God is going to do next. I just make certain that I’m prayed up enough so that I don’t miss it when He does it.”

“At the point that I have rigorously pressed out and reached the end of myself, I have in fact not even broached the place where God is about to begin. Therefore, a conclusion in my mind is barely a point of departure in God’s.”

“Some would say that paradise is the escapist ‘fiction’ of hapless minds caught up in the denial of a darkening world. But Christmas would say that the ‘paradise’ of escapist fiction has not a single shred of fiction in it at all.”

“When it comes to sacrifice, the glaring difference between myself and God is that for Him price is not a consideration. And while I hate to admit it, I find myself struggling to consider that that’s even possible.”

“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.”

“Why was God born in a borrowed barn to two impoverished teenagers in a town far off the pages of commerce and industry? Because true greatness will always shed the mantel of privilege in order to meet us in the muck of our lives.”

“The phenomenally improbable message of Christmas is that everything that we were convinced was a defeat is in fact a victory in the making.”

“Have we not considered that the greatest sacrifices imaginable arise from the greatest love conceivable which results in the greatest transformations possible. And if this is not our understanding of Christmas, we have no Christmas.”

“I have made myself my own first-responder. And if I’m really all that good, why am I still laying at the scene of the accident?”

“I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.”

“Impossible’ as defined by us is a ‘walk in the park’ as defined by God. And as I think about it, I really need to spend more time in parks.”

“In medieval times, the learned man, the teacher was a servant of God wholly, and of God only. His freedom was sanctioned by an authority more than human…The academy was regarded almost as a part of the natural and unalterable order of things. … They were Guardians of the Word, fulfilling a sacred function and so secure in their right. Far from repressing free discussion, this “framework of certain key assumptions of Christian doctrine” encouraged disputation of a heat and intensity almost unknown in universities nowadays. …They were free from external interference and free from a stifling internal conformity because the whole purpose of the universities was the search after an enduring truth, besides which worldly aggrandizement was as nothing. They were free because they agreed on this one thing if, on nothing else, fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Evolution self-destructs morality”