2,311 quotes found
“God remains the same—faithful, loving and powerful—through changes big and small.”
“The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that m...”
“…when we really connect with who God is… we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine…”
“It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.”
“Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the...”
“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most for...”
“This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the nature of Celtic monasticism firmly to the attention of the Chu...”
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?”
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philoso...”
“For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be a miracle is, in the last resort, something presented to our sen...”
“How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.”
“I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authori...”
“If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating...”
“Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.”
“Jesus isn’t an afterthought only when we need help, but He should be our first thought. Our first friend. Our first listening ear. The first person we go to for advice. Jesus shouldn’t be our last ...”
“People don’t mind Christianity until you show any sign of actually believing in it”
“I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.”
“The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.”
“Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is g...”
“As’ is the most difficult word in a Christian’s life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.”
