The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all.
Andree Seu World MagazineTag: inspirational christianity
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence JordanTag: philosophy christianity religion
Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.
Clarence JordanTag: philosophy christianity religion
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
Clarence JordanTag: philosophy christianity religion
Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
Clarence JordanTag: philosophy christianity religion
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
John CalvinTag: christianity sin
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
John CalvinTag: christianity
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
Francis de SalesTag: christianity humility hypocrisy pride
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
John CalvinTag: christianity god worship
We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.
Francis de SalesTag: christianity sin devotion slander
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