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Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesu...

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Jean VanierCommunity And Growth

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the...

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Jean VanierCommunity And Growth

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep ...

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John BunyanThe Pilgrim's Progress

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to b...

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For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbri...

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John CalvinCommentaries on the Catholic Epistles

For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invi...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it...

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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it t...

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And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

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John MiltonParadise Lost and Other Poems

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mank...

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

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the ...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mank...

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

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the ...

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Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mank...

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

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the ...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mank...

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

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the ...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are stan...

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Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...

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Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From ...

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God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and specia...

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Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we ...

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The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schoo...

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Joseph McCabeThe Sources of the Morality of the Gospels

Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, a...

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The lamb, having survived the storm unharmed and no longer afraid, came up to Jesus and put its mout...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a m...

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The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God...

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On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most...

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Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He come...

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In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounte...

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God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and e...

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Karl BarthThe Humanity of God

In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lor...

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Karl BarthThe Humanity of God

God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei ...

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He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not agai...

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I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already d...

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Kathleen NorrisThe Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because ...

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Kathy GriffinOfficial Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that pai...

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You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

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The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross ...

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Lesslie NewbiginFoolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

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Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

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Madeleine L'EngleBright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation

Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...

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Madeleine L'EngleGlimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world thro...

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It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

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