If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.
Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.
The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?
Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.
Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
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