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“The purpose of the Christian life is to reveal Jesus Christ to the world.”
“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we dont have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and rea...”
“The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine jus...”
“[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man...”
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves...”
“It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, whic...”
“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace,...”
“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”
“If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus...”
“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the...”
“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”
“Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death wi...”
“Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic.”
“When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.”
“It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.”
“Dad?" Jesus asked."Yes son?" God replied."Why does man have so many religions?" Jesus asked."It's because they all have different beliefs," God said."Why?" Jesus asked."It's because they have a fre...”
“If Jesus finished His work for us then be confident that He will finish His work in us. He is a FINISHER!”
“Kilio kikuu cha Yesu, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabakthani?, yaani, Mungu wangu, Mungu wangu, mbona umeniacha?, na Imekwisha, vilitabiriwa katika Zaburi 22 ili watu waliompinga Kristo waamini kama Yesu alik...”
“I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end re...”
“If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're ...”