I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.
Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God.
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.
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.
There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
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.
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...
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.
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
