Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.
Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize
Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.
A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang. '
What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about Jesus Christ. The story is not about me. That takes a lot of the pressure off me, but it also puts the responsibility on me to point people to who the true story is about.
I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.
I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself.
To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything.
If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion