The alternative to discipline is disaster
A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.
Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off. )
I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.
If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion, but he talks about Christ's emphasis on mercy instead of his emphasis on judgment. He talks about the lack of Christian charity and the pride that are afloat in our world these days in terms of making moral judgments on other people. That's really it for Willie. He's really a missionary.
The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
Certainly every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable abortion law. But as we work and pray, we should have in mind not only this important issue as though it stood alone. Rather, we should be struggling and praying that this whole other total entity "(this godless) worldview" can be rolled back with all its results across all of life.
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.
