Grace has not been well understood by the post-modern church let alone applied as post-moderns in our lives as a reality that Christ secured for us." ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Quite aside from supernatural experiences, after having given this much thought and extensive consideration, I am quite certain that it is Christianity that is based in Objective Reality and Truth and is therefore validpp
'Let your yes be yes and your no be no for anything other than that is evil' NT (passim). This quote is not an adequate argument for 'anti-intellectualism' or the position that Reason & Faith are antithetical ". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.
The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.
Don't be afraid," Elisha answered, "We have more on our side than they have on theirs." (2 Kings 6:15 GNT)
Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much.
Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.
Tak ada masalah yang terlalu berat, atau yang terlalu ringan. Kalau terlalu berat, tentu kita tak akan bisa menghadapinya, dan bila terlalu ringan, kita takut cenderung meremehkannya
The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.
It has been suggested that the color of an aura can reveal characteristics about the generating source.
It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.
Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.
...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.
Marriage as it should be... two individuals loving the other more than they cared for themselves. Giving and giving until theoretically they should be empty, yet always invigorated with more to give.
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.
