Jesus never concealed the fact that his religion included a demand as well as an offer. Indeed, the demand was as total as the offer was free. If he offered men his salvation, he also demanded their submission. He gave no encouragement whatever to thoughtless applicants for discipleship. He brought no pressure to bear on any inquirer. He sent irresponsible enthusiasts away empty. Luke tells of three men who either volunteered, or were invited, to follow Jesus; but no one passed the Lord’s test. The rich young ruler, too, moral, earnest and attractive, who wanted eternal life on his own terms, went away sorrowful, with his riches intact but with neither life nor Christ as his possession…The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict, half built towers—the ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish. For thousands of people still ignore Christ’s warning and undertake to follow him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so. The result is the great scandal of Christendom today, so called “nominal Christianity.” In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent, but thin, veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to be respectable but not enough to be uncomfortable. Their religion is a great, soft cushion. It protects them from the hard unpleasantness of life, while changing its place and shape to suit their convenience. No wonder the cynics speak of hypocrites in the church and dismiss religion as escapism…The message of Jesus was very different. He never lowered his standards or modified his conditions to make his call more readily acceptable. He asked his first disciples, and he has asked every disciple since, to give him their thoughtful and total commitment. Nothing less than this will do
John R.W. StottStichwörter: grace cross christ cheap-grace cost-of-discipleship
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.
William Kent KruegerMean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: kindness grace mercy making-a-difference high-school positive-thinking meanness mean-girls helping-people loving-people being-kind being-loving kind-women
The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: kindness heart grace mercy attitude inner-beauty helping-others making-a-difference positive-thinking loving-people being-kind-to-others showing-compassion the-way-you-treat-people
Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: kindness love compassion grace emptiness making-a-difference positive-thinking changing-the-world helping-people showing-love be-the-change being-kind building-people-up being-kind-to-others showing-compassion healing-hurt
Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: love grace forgiveness prayer change-the-world making-a-difference pray change-your-life love-people helping-hand turn-the-other-cheek rising-above loving-people be-the-change being-the-bigger-person building-people-up changing-a-life
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonI know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.
Anne LamottStichwörter: grace
I am not interested in having the world revolve around me; that's too boring of an idea. I would rather revolve around the world and try to leave my fingerprints, everywhere. My fingerprints mingled in with all the other fingerprints and all the laughter and all the beautiful things like gratitude, grace, faithfulness and flowers.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: inspirational-quotes grace flowers gratitude faithfulness inspirational-life-quotes inspirational-women-s-quotes inspirational-quotes-for-women revolving-around-the-world
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
Criss JamiStichwörter: love reality peace god grace mercy christmas sin salvation jesus spirituality santa-claus materialism apologetics stuff christ superhero
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