Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry
When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.
Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
"God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy."
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