Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
Philip YanceyStichwörter: love christianity suffering jesus
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.
Francis A. SchaefferStichwörter: politics christianity apologetics francis-schaeffer reformed legal-theory
The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.
Francis A. SchaefferStichwörter: politics christianity government apologetics francis-schaeffer reformed legal-theory
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.
David Bentley HartStichwörter: philosophy christianity theology aesthetics eastern-orthodox
God did not create you to fail!
Tommy ColettaStichwörter: self-esteem christianity spiritual self-empowerment self-help
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: christianity god
I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.
Brian D. McLarenStichwörter: christianity religion humility
The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
Stichwörter: christianity jesus spirituality good-friday
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul IIStichwörter: christianity religion joy spirituality depression easter
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 PiperStichwörter: christianity
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