“The question: What is a Christian? My answer: A Christian is someone who follows Jesus* My former answer: A Christian is someone… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart.… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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“Jesus sure seemed to have a good set of enemies, and some of them even wanted to kill Him. Why? He was… — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams;… — John Owen Copy Share Image
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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