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Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

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Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the on...

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Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning to...

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The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the s...

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We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet ...

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When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

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Max LucadoA Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

Yet when God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh. ...

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Max LucadoHe Chose the Nails

Want to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles with the stars ...

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I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-tha...

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Max LucadoWhen God Whispers Your Name

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...

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Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too c...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...

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He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love t...

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Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes ...

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Mother TeresaIn the Heart of the World: Thoughts

Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that yo...

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Mother TeresaThe Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to ha...

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When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us wh...

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I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as Go...

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

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N.T. WrightFollowing Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of su...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brig...

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N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well...

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N.T. WrightHow God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FO...

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N.T. WrightJustification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision

Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrectio...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilis...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to h...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his w...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

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And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

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And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can pur...

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There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

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I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is requir...

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have,...

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No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that th...

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Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is abs...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too.

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

Teach me your way of looking at people:as you glanced at Peter after his denial,as you penetrated th...

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How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

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The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in lo...

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Pope FrancisEncountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by care...

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Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

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Pope FrancisThe Name of God is Mercy

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...

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Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live...

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Problems arise when (especially) theologians use such metaphorical language without realizing that t...

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Richard DawkinsAn Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church withou...

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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floa...

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God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means...

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In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times...

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The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rathe...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, li...

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Stephen ColbertAmerica Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

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Steven HeightonEvery Lost Country

More to the point, what was the lesson that the first Christians drew from crucifixion? Today such a...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkT...

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Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix y...

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...it takes great humility to find oneself unjustly condemned and be silent, and to do this is to im...

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God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind o...

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Thomas GoodwinWhat Happens When I Pray

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great n...

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All that God is, will supply your need.

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert....

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The most thankful person is the most fully human.

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Thomas GoodwinWhat Happens When I Pray

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus hi...

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He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of...

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Thomas JeffersonWorks of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too ...

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Thomas M. DischThe Word of God: Or

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law...

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Thomas MertonGandhi On Non-Violence

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no...

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It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we ...

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It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in lov...

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We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pl...

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And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me a...

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Thomas MertonSelected Poems of Thomas Merton

Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoub...

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Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong...

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Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for sa...

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It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

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Tom RobbinsAnother Roadside Attraction