We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
“The Christian, the child of God, the Christ man who has committed his body as well as his spirit and soul to… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that… — William Law Copy Share Image
... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values. — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet,… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement.… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory! — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
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