If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not,, you will remian dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die.
C.S. LewisTags: peace faith joy jesus eternal-life
We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.
Dillon BurroughsTags: grace salvation jesus transformation good-deeds
In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.
Dillon BurroughsTags: jesus teaching example faith-in-action
Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.
Dillon BurroughsTags: jesus poverty example poor homeless
Jesus rejoices in even the smallest gifts to His children.
Dillon BurroughsBe willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
Dillon BurroughsTags: jesus boldness evangelism unashamed
Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, the betrayal and abandonment by his friends, death on the cross. Because Jesus cried out in anguish, we may too. But our fear is less frequent and infinitely less if we are close to the Creator. Jesus, having cried out, then let his fear go, and moved on.
Madeleine L'EngleI seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
Jim ElliotStrange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real?
Anthony LiccioneTags: jesus jewish israel nation rejection messiah
Sometimes, most times, when I think back to the people that I loved, the person that I was... I feel like I'm reading the pages of a book written about
someone else's life.
I can't believe that was me. I can't believe that was you. I can't believe there was an us.
It's not that I regret it. It just doesn't feel like it happened to me and yet, I can't forget it.
I feel like it's still refracting and reflecting back on me, haunting me.
Jesus intercepted my mind, my thoughts, my mistakes, my shame. He's changed me from the inside out. But I'm afraid you still see the stain.
Lord, let them see my heart, look at You and Your still-in-progress work of art. Help us all to look beyond our burned bridges, charred reputations, scattered shards of memories, and gaze at the One who took on the weight of all the hate to find the freedom in redemption that we all crave.
Tags: heart mistakes shame jesus redemption burned-bridges
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