Quotes of: Christian-faith Keyword

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure

Christians are notorious for acting like used car salesmen, treating non-Christians as if they’re standing there holding a blank check and sporting a hard-on for unreliable vehicles.

Stop Being a F***ing Idiot

These days she tended to think of herself as a Heisenbergian Christian: she believed in the broad outlines of Christianity, but she was unable to pinpoint the specifics of her creed. She was OK with the wave; it was the particles that tended to escap...

Mercury Falls

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

The Normal Christian Life

We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

The Normal Christian Life

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

The Normal Christian Life

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Mere Christianity

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

Stop Acting Like A Christian, Just Be One

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Peaceable Psychology, A: Christian Therapy in a World of Many Cultures

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area.  Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.

Thoughts on Christian Motherhood

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense

We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).

What Mother Teresa Taught Me

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

A Year of Biblical Womanhood