Our culture tells us that you must look inside to discover your deepest desires and dreams and to express them. You must do this yourself, and must not rely on anyone outside to affirm and tell you wh...
No es solo creer en Ti, sino, en oración y experiencia, percibir y sentir Tu hermosura. Permíteme amarte por quien eres solamente. Amén.
Let the knowledge of your grace make me never less but only more intensely devoted to obeying you.
Let me put it another way. There is a stupid peace and then there is a smart peace. The stupid peace comes from refusing to think about your overall situation. If you go that way, you can pop a cork,...
La doctrina bíblica del pecado explica por qué el matrimonio, más que cualquier otra empresa humana, es algo tan difícil de conseguir que triunfe.
Jesus’s miracles in particular were never magic tricks, designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like: See that tree over there? Watch me make it burst into flames! Instead...
Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rath...
It is worth asking ourselves: Where am I saying I can’t but God is saying You won’t? Israel’s failure to obey was based on what they saw as good reasons—God said they were flimsy excuses. Why? Because...
It is only when you see the desire to be your own Savior and Lord—lying beneath both your sins and your moral goodness—that you are on the verge of understanding the gospel and becoming a Christian in...
It is necessary for us to recognize that there is an intelligent mysticism in the life of faith . . . of living union and communion with the exalted and ever-present Redeemer. . . . He communes with h...
It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and that is able to warm itself at the fire of God’s love, in...
Is there any example for me to follow? Is there any command for me to obey? Is there any error for me to avoid? Is there any sin for me to forsake? Is there any promise for me to claim? Is there any n...
Is the purpose of marriage to deny your interests for the good of the family, or is it rather to assert your interests for the fulfilment of yourself? The Christian teaching does not offer a choice be...
In every case the nature of the prayer is determined by the character of God, who is at once our friend, father, lover, shepherd and king. We must not decide how to pray based on what types of prayer...
If we base our lives on work and achievement, on love and pleasure, or on knowledge and learning, our existence becomes anxious and fragile—because circumstances in life are always threatening the ver...
I think that people will definitely go on holding to their beliefs in human dignity even when conscious belief in God is gone. Why is this the case? I have a radical thesis. I think people in our cult...
I divide each [biblical] command into four parts, thereby fashioning a garland of four strands. That is I think of each commandment as first, instruction, which is really what it is intended to be, an...
I believe this particular part of 1 Corinthians 7 is an important practical resource. Each partner in marriage is to be most concerned not with getting sexual pleasure but with giving it. In short, th...
Here, then, is the message. Don’t love anything less; instead learn to love God more, and you will love other things with far more satisfaction.
He sees all kinds of sins in himself – and all kinds of accomplishments too – but he refuses to connect them with himself or his identity. So, although he knows himself to be the chief of sinners, tha...