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The Christian life
that is joyless
is
a discredit to God and
a disgrace to
itself.
Maltie D. Babcock
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believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has
risen, not only
because I see it but because I see
everything in it.
C.S.
Lewis
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The
true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose,
resolute in endeavor,
ready for a hero's deeds, but
never looking down on their task because it is cast
in the
day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as
to
their rights, following the higher
law with reverence, and in this world doing all that
in their power lies, so that when death comes
they may feel that humanity is
in some degree better because they lived.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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No people are true Christians who
do not
think constantly of
how they can lift
their brother and sister, how they can
assist their friends,
how they can
enlighten mankind, how they can make
virtue the
rule
of conduct in the circle
in which they live.
Woodrow
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A
Christian is nothing but a sinful person who has put him or herself
to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming
better.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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Christianity
is one beggar
telling another beggar where he or she found bread.
D.T. Niles
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Christ
does not save us by acting a
parable of divine love; He
acts the
parable
of divine love by saving us. That
is the Christian faith.
Austin Farber
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It
is not the multitude of hard duties,
it is not the
constraint and contention
that advance us in our
Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding
of
our wills without restriction and
without choice to tread
cheerfully every
day
in the path in which Providence
leads
us. It is to seek nothing, to be
discouraged
by
nothing, to see our duty in the
present moment, and to
trust
all else
without reserve to the will and power of
God.
François
Fenelon
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The first thing that
we have to realize is a fact of fundamental importance,
because it means
breaking away from all the ordinary
prepossessions of orthodoxy. The plain fact is that
Jesus
taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely
spiritual or metaphysical. Historical Christianity,
unfortunately, has largely concerned itself with
theological and
doctrinal questions which, strange to say,
have no part whatever in the Gospel teaching. It will
startle many good people to learn that all the doctrines
and theologies of the churches
are human inventions built
up by their authors out of their own mentalities. . . . There
is absolutely
no system of theology of doctrine to be
found in the Bible; it simply is not there.
Emmet Fox |
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Christianity is
the least concerned about
religion of any
of the world's
faiths. It is
primarily concerned about life.
T.D. Price |
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When
we were watching the distribution of clothing in Jordan,
I found
myself wondering what it would be like to be
wearing the clothes of
someone else; how it would be like
always in someone else's shoes.
Then it occurred to me
that this is precisely what Christianity
means--eternally
being in someone else's shoes.
R.
Paul Freed
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The whole history of
the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . .
Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing
in God, a resurrection must follow; a
resurrection out of the night
of troubled thought into
the gladness of the truth.
George
MacDonald
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The
ship's place is in the sea, but God pity the ship when
the sea gets into it.
The Christian's place is in the
world, but God pity the Christians
if the world gets the
best of them.
Anon
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Christianity
teaches that the human soul is directly related to God.
Such immediacy is the hallmark of the Divinity of the
soul
and the center of our freedom.
Helmut
Kuhn |
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This is
what Christianity is for--to teach
people the art of Life. And its whole
curriculum lies in three words, "Learn of me."
Anon
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A true Christian should have but one
fear--
lest he or she should not hope enough.
Walter Elliot
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The
essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus
and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that it is only
through
love that we can attain to communion with God. All
living knowledge
of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience Him in
our lives as will-to-love.
Albert
Schweitzer
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Every
good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility.
Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s
why
Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian
faith.
John Piper
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"The Christian ideal," it is said, "has not been
tried and
found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
G.K. Chesterton |
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When I awaken in the
morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am
thankful for
everything
that I have materially. I am thankful for
everything I have spiritually. I thank God
for allowing
me to experience
these things, even the experiences that
may not seem so positive,
such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the
illness, but I sense
that
it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God
for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness
and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that
comes from everything.
Betty Eadie
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In the very first
words of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus puts his
finger
on one of life's most vital issues--individual and
personal
happiness. We all want to be happy--and rightly
so. The longing
for lasting happiness is a deep-rooted
instinct that has been built
into us by the Creator
Himself. The God who made the sunset,
painted the rose,
put the smile on a baby's face, gave the gift of
playfulness to a kitten and put laughter in our souls is
surely not happy when we are unhappy.
Although it is a God-given instinct to be
happy, we must also see
that it is only God who can make
us happy. Apart from him and his
redemptive love as
expressed through the cross and the resurrection,
we
would be "most miserable" (1 Cor. 15:19).
Selwyn Hughes
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I would be true, for there are
those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
I would be friend of all--the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.
I would be learning, day by day, the lessons
My heavenly Father gives me in his Word;
I would be quick to hear his slightest whisper,
And prompt and glad to do the things I've heard.
Harold Arnold Walter |
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I compare the troubles which we have to
undergo in the course of the
year
to a great bundle of
sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does
not
require us
to carry the whole at once. He mercifully
unties the
bundle, and gives us first one stick,
which we
are to carry today, and
then another, which we are to
carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might
easily manage,
if we would only take the burden appointed for us each
day;
but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying
yesterday's
stick over again today,
and adding tomorrow's
burden to our load,
before we are required to bear it.
John Newton |
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Have courage for the great sorrows
of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you
have laboriously accomplished your daily task,
go to
sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor
Hugo |
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There
are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of
becoming perfect
and I can only tell them that the sole
secret is a hearty love of God,
and the only way of
attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak
by
speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to
work by working;
and just so you learn to love God and
man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice
and the very
power of love will lead you on to become a master of the
art.
St. Francis of Sales
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