Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it… — Chris Broussard Copy Share Image
God gave you and me. A precious love that has grown in time. When things were tough it was in those times… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“I think of the privilege it is to be able to speak life over these hurting people and believe in new life… — Katie Davis Majors Copy Share Image
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has… — W. Sangster Copy Share Image
Just as important as knowing what gift God has given you is knowing which gifts He hasn't give you. Many Christians try… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness...… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.' World conquest-possession of the whole universe-given to the meek, of all people!… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I believe the role of the Christian today is to show the world the love of Jesus. I know that may sound… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
“Many have found it hard to see what claim the law can have on the Christian. We are free from the law,… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Consistently pray in all things, so that you might not do anything without the help of God ... Whoever does or busies… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“She scanned the room, and her grin broadened when she saw Christian. She then sought me out. Her smile for him had… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“This, therefore, is that christian comfort, spoken of in this question of the catechism, which is an only and solid comfort, both… — Zacharias Ursinus Copy Share Image
Because we are rooted in a generous Christian heritage, we are eager to collaborate with people of other faiths, and those seeking… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think… — Samuel Larsen Copy Share Image
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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