All Quotes By Tag: Christianity
“Most people believe in God because they think he’s comforting, not because they think he’s real.”
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“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world.One: I see a theme park where there are lots of rides, but there is nobody who can control them and nobody who knows how the rides end. Grief counseling, however, is included in the price of admission.Two: I see an accident. An explosion of some kind inhabited by happenstantial life forms. A milk spill gone bacterial, only with more flame. It has no meaning or purpose or master. It simply is.Three: I see a stage, a world where every scene is crafted. Where men act out their lives within a tapestry, where meaning and beauty exist, where right and wrong are more than imagined constructs. There is evil. There is darkness. There is the Winter of tragedy, every life ending, churned back into the soil. But the tragedy leads to Spring. The story does not end in frozen death. The fields are sown in grief. The harvest will be reaped in joy. I see a Master’s painting. I listen to a Master’s prose. When darkness falls on me, when I stand on my corner of the stage and hear my cue, when I know my final scene has come and I must exit, I will go into the ground like corn, waiting for the Son.”
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“He is so delighted when we approach His throne with prayer. He loves to be remembered as the One who can heal all, cure all and fix all.”
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“If we fit in with the rest of the world and don’t feel out of place, we’re missing many of the gifts that God has for us. We’re not supposed to conform to the ways of the world but daily walk closer to God.”
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“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he confessed on several occasions. He had ruined his life beyond repair. If Wisconsin had the death penalty, he would have earned it. Who could he turn to except God? Certainly no human would hear the cries of his heart and believe the depth of his sorrow. Only God could.”
“At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.”
“Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you—he might even make you limp—until you’re desperate enough to say, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’ It is a great mercy to be brought to the point where you’re desperate enough to insist on what you need the most.”
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“Our Father in heaven” — I am a child away from home.”Your name be honored as holy”–I am a worshiper.”Your kingdom come”–I am a subject.”Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”–I am a servant.”Give us today our daily bread”–I am a beggar.”And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors”–I am a sinner.”And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one”–I am a sinner in danger of being a still greater sinner.”
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“Although healing practices are periodically marginalized, they do not remain so for long. In one way or another, healing always finds an occasion for reemergence. In the midst of inexpressible suffering, it seems that someone will always believe in the beauty and wonder of the gospel.”
“Remember the ancient days! Remember the fathers of old! Remember the ancient men who worked in our Fathers’ vineyard! Their patience, strong faith, tenacity, courage and fortitude, long suffering and understanding, persistence and power! They heard the purpose, and they took the journey. They heard the call, and they responded to the call. Their records are our examples; their footprints are our lessons! Their faith; our mirror! God has used some people before, and He can also use us also today!Remember their obedience and sacrifices; obedience and sacrifices that invoked Abraham to take steps to sacrifice his son Isaac; obedience and sacrifices for which reason Ananias and Sapphira had to die for not rendering a good account of their ‘own’ properties! Obedience and sacrifices which inspired the disciples of Jesus Christ to face death ending moments and still rejoiced in the Lord! Remember Elijah! Remember Elisha! Remember Abraham, Remember Moses! Remember Joshua! Remember Daniel! Remember Samuel! Remember David! Remember Peter! Remember the apostle Paul! Remember Silas! Remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; keep your faith! Peter, Stephen, James… remember! You are called to call; you are called to work; we are saved to proclaim salvation; we are in His vineyard to do something; let us do something noble and solemn for our Masters applauds!”
“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.”
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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
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“A little murmur of admiration greeted this neat reply and on the crest of it the hostess rose to dismiss the meeting. The ladies rustled forward towards the lecturer but he, deprecating their flattery, came to greet Helena. “I was told your Majesty might do me the honor of coming.””I scarcely hoped you had recognized me. I am afraid the lecture was far above my head. But I am delighted to see you have prospered. Are you . . . are you able to travel as you wish?””Yes, I was given my freedom many years ago by a kind, foolish old woman who took a fancy for my verses.””Did you get to Alexandria?””Not yet, but I found what I wanted. Did you reach Troy, Highness?””No, oh no.” “Or Rome?””Not even there.””But you found what you wanted?””I have accepted what I found. Is that the same?””For most people. I think you wanted more.””Once. Now I am past my youth.””But your question just now. ‘When? Where? How do you know?’–was a child’s question.””That is why your religion would never do for me, Marcias. If I ever found a teacher it would have to be one who called little children to him.””That, alas, is not the spirit of the time. We live in a very old world today. We know too much. We should have to forget everything and be born again to answer your question.”
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“Let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe with certainty and consistency the things that are yet unseen. Let nothing that is on this side of eternal life get inside you.”
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“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”