Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind wi...
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.
The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students the...
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call...
Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.
You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did
Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you...
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scr...
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.
To be a man, a boy must see a man.
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