Christian Quotes
We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.
If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.
I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.
Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.
Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.
The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.
God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.
I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.
Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.
The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.
When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.
The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.
I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.
We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.
The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.
The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough.
I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God.
You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.
No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.
Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.
If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God
True Christianity is NOT a religion, to be a christian, you don't have to be a christian
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou
One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex.
Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It’s God’s priceless gift to you.
The reason many fail to joyfully proclaim Jesus Christ is because deep down they fail to joyfully adore Him
In order for us to learn to love, first ourselves and the others, we must accept Jesus’ love for us in the deepest parts of our hearts.
Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.
I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.
She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.
If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.
We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.
