257 quotes found
“No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.”
“The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of...”
“We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.”
“Soft, hence the blackheart under my sweet muse popular sentiments and blandishmentsmark your rather tranquil passionsso living were you, so sure was your stanceof everything put in and nothing to g...”
“The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would have trivialized his sacrifice by living as though they w...”
“........................................To a man without a country, He appeared a joint sojourner. To Joshua armed but afraid, He came a valiant warrior.To Moses raised up on the mount, He was the ...”
“By shattering my preconceptions and cultural stereotypes, what materialized was a massive personality who was astonishingly winsome yet gravely terrifying. A man whose breathtaking compassion would...”
“Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our needs won't be met according to the destitution of the world or to the pov...”
“Jesus is more likely to lead you across the street than across the ocean.”
“I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look p...”
“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for...”
“Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory.”
“God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.”
“I am so glad that Jesus does not say, Practice more spiritual disciplines. He says, Come to meand I will give you rest.”
“Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.”
“Jesus offers undeserved love, a love we don't deserve and can therefore never lose.”
“Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floating in the air.She tells me Jesus' DNA ispart of the collective DNA.She tells we are all partof ...”
“I learned that faith isnt about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. Its something more, something more costly because it being present and making a sacrifice. Perhaps thats w...”
“But who is Aslan? Do you know him?""Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.”
“Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”
