We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.
Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.
Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.
Do your best, and your best will be growing better.
It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world
I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.
Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God...
Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?
Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.
God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.
They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to tak...
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.