All Quotes By Tag: Christianity
“The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy is the one who wants you to give up.”
“if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith” it was full of mysteries; “we are fools to try to explain them.” This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. “Had I know, I should never have been a preacher.”
“A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It’s a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.”
“Jesus invited people to ‘repent and believe’ this Good News; to set aside fear and worry in order to believe in God’s love; and to reject self-centeredness in order to give loving service to others. Jesus insisted, says Karl Baus, that purity of mind and intention is the basis for moral behavior, ‘thus giving the individual conscience the decisive role in the sphere of religion.”
“Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.’I did not know, as I listened to my father’s footsteps winding back down the stairs, that he had given me more than the key to this hard moment. I did not know that he had put in my had the secret that would open far darker rooms that this–places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.”
“How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?”
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as “faith” or “belief”. If God is not in the very fabric of existence for you, if you do not find Him (or miss Him!) in the details of your daily life, then religion is just one more way to commit spiritual suicide.”
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!”
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she hath no replies.”
“if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any greater purpose in the grand scheme of the universe. Suffering is just a part of naturalistic evolution weeding you out of existence for something stronger and younger to take your place on the food chain.”
“Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.”
“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.”
“The moral of the story is, faith does not always bring you happiness, wealth or a comfortable lifestyle filled with fun things to do. What faith does bring us is hope while living out God’s attitudes of: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, all for the glory of God and the establishment of his kingdom.”
“How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?”
“Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?”