Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)
Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.
To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.- John 16:2
Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.?
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.
Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.
The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.
We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above...
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