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We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

Why not give Christianity a trial?

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

A baby isn’t meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes. This isn’t all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I’m with someone is, “Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?

Abiding in the vine leads to fruit bearing.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

About potentials, ,decipher(decode),discern, decide and determine what they are

You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the religion you'd be following would not be Christianity.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due!

Above all the studies in the world, study your own hearts; waste not a minute more of your precious time about frivolous & unsubstantial controversies. My dear flock, I have, according to the grace given me, labored in the course of my ministry among you, to feed you with the heart strengthening bread of practical doctrine, and I do assure you, it is far better you should have the sweet and saving impressions of gospel truths, feelingly and powerfully conveyed to your hearts, than only to understand them by a bare ratiocination, or a dry syllogistical inference. Leave trifling studies to such as have time lying on their hands and know not how to employ it. Remember you are at the door of eternity, and have other work to do. Those hours you spend upon heart-work in your closets, are the golden spots of all your time and will have the sweetest influence up to your last hour.

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

Accessibility means more than adding a ramp between the sidewalk and the front door of a building. It includes the ease in which a product, service, or environment can be utilized across "diverse human populations, their abilities and their needs".

According to Jesus examples discipleship is not a program we launch. It is a lifestyle we embrace.

Achieving great things through training, tenacity & time doesn't make someone vain. It lessens vanity! Therefore, I have one question: is @realDonaldTrump vain?

A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. Also, atheists are no different from all those orthodox believers.