Quotes of: Lord-jesus-christ Keyword

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffe...

Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

Until Christ Returns: Living Faithfully Today While We Wait for Our Glorious Tomorrow

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person...

Shannon L. Alder

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep th...

Saint Teresa of Avila

The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let u...

Augustine of Hippo

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out i...

A.W. Tozer

Whatever characterization one may choose to place on Satan, "imbecile message maker" doesn't fit. This was no third-ranking demon out there in the wilderness throwing lines at Christ. This was the manic master who understood the power of words. He sp...

William E. Jefferson

They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren’t protesting; they were celebrating.

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.

Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

The Grapes of Wrath

Thank you," he says. "Thank who?" "I don't know. You?" "No, not me. ." "Thank you, Jesus?" "Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

The gospels, never meant to report, but rather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Justin Martyr explained the distinction and the sameness of the Father and the Son with the analogy of a candle. The flame can pass from one candle to another without changing in quality or diminishing the first.

From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church

His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.

The Jesus Life: Eight Ways to Recover Authentic Christianity

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.

The Jesus Horse