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“I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.”
“We dont just learn facts, but we learn a Face. Were not just learners of principles, but of a Person. We are lifelong learners in relationship with Jesus as we hear his voice in his word and have h...”
“Jesus has kept the Heaven beyond the reach of Scientific Wisdom but within the reach of Spiritual Wisdom.”
“You dreamed like all mothers do.Until he began to speak aloud,Your boy,calling for justice in the market place,Demanding integrity and fair playin the courts and halls of business.Declaring the Rea...”
“O Sacred Heart of Mary!" she murmured by his side, and he felt how that name was food and raiment, friend and mother to her. He received the miracle in her heart into his own, saw through her eyes,...”
“...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from watching a great athlete run a four-minute mile. Sure, it's a fine sight...”
“Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.”
“Jesus changes everything about a persons life, from the obvious to the unseen. He shatters black and white into brilliant color and shakes the asleep until theyre wide awake.”
“We must seek to keep a right view of Jesus and to remember He is always after greater love.”
“Yet when God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh. Restricted by weary-prone muscles and eyelids. For more than three decades, his once limitless re...”
“Problems arise when (especially) theologians use such metaphorical language without realizing that that is what they are doing, and without even realizing that there is a distinction between metaph...”
“You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.”
“Imagine being with the apostles and having the opportunity of seeing Jesus being taken up into heaven. Imagine if you had been there to witness to the ascension of Christ. For sure it must have bee...”
“If we choose Jesus as our model, we simultaneously choose his own model, God the Father. Having no appropriative desire, Jesus proclaims the possibility of freedom from scandal. But if we choose po...”
“I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already done everything for us. It speaks of the Christ who "offered for all time a single sacrifice for s...”
“Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.”
“Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.”
“We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.”
“Jesus prayed for us , We too , need to pray for others.”
“Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. It can purify."It can also fuck you up, said Shadow.”
