All Quotes By Tag: Jesus
“The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!”
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“When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!”
“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil ‘tackle a guy, they don’t kick him in the head’), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in ‘a miracle’. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the ‘super-sub’ may be an image too far even for him.”
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“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.”
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“Her (Mary’s) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.”
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
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“Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible… Contemplation does not ignore the “historical Gethsemane,” does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.”
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“God is always working in every detail of our lives to help us turn our heart toward him. The life we’ve always wanted is found in Jesus.”
“Lift up your heads, ye people,lift up your faces, too,open your mouths to sing His praise,and the rain will fall on you.”
“We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said”
“Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.”
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“I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!”
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“Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.”
“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”
“The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant”