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- Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a…
- Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words…
- Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful.…
- While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the…
- The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate…
- We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says…
- God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
- A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our…
- Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away…
- The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death…
- At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The…
- No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part…
- God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
- The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment…
- It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else…
- The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.
- As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
- We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was…
- If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
- To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle