If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.
The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.
I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.