#christianity

"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."

"Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy."

"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."

"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."

"The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion"

"Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians."

"The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist."

"This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before."

"We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books."

"I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'"-"

"We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ."

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."

"To regret religion is to regret Western civilization."

"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."

"To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself."

"The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it."

"As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?"