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There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universa...

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The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a w...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

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Cornel WestDemocracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of s...

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.

I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bir...

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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...

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When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' e...

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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or...

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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's child...

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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jes...

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Politics are not the task of a Christian.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could ...

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Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the...

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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not a...

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Dietrich BonhoefferA Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes huma...

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Dietrich BonhoefferA Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer ...

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The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire.The exclusion ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no n...

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Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not b...

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Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our e...

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The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general ado...

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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior m...

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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

The only Christian work is good work well done.

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought t...

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‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all...

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What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has alre...

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Elie WieselAll Rivers Run to the Sea

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give--my heart, bo...

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Elizabeth PrentissStepping Heavenward

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help...

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Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

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I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...

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I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of r...

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Frederick BuechnerWishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...

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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are ...

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There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one ...

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The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not t...

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The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or...

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O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty ha...

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Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

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Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

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We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always...

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His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

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A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not w...

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There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us...

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You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...

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I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're ha...

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Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can und...

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He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its t...

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Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath...

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A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without...

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One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at t...

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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-...

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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which i...

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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now ...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and n...

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they ...

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It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his ...

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When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us t...

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The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames m...

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Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.

What is sin?It is the glory of God not honored.The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of G...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate ...

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

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John Piper (artist)Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?

What is sin?It is the glory of God not honored.The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of G...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate ...

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

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John Piper (artist)Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?

What is sin?It is the glory of God not honored.The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of G...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate ...

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

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John Piper (theologian)Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?

What is sin?It is the glory of God not honored.The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of G...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate ...

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent