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.
Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way
The better you get, the better you better get.
That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.
We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,'...
Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.
Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.
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...
I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.
No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.
Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.
Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.