The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If a man does not argue with the thoughts that the enemy secretly sows in us, but by prayer to God uproots… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my… — John Pizzarelli Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“The same beautiful receptionist greeted Christian who had met him before and she extended the same lush invitation as she had the… — Amalie Howard Copy Share Image
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you are fond of dressing elegantly, or when you put on your clothes, think of the incorruptible garment of righteousness in… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible.… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time… — Nilus of Sinai Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his… — D. A. Fisher Copy Share Image
When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The answer to the question, in part, is-in heaven. But Pan] is seeking in Romans 8 to address another concern: Does the… — Derek W.H. Thomas Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I thought of a passage from the book of Jeremiah 29:11-13: For I know the plans that I have for you, declares… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image