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Let love be your
greatest aim.
1 Corinthians 14:1
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Christianity 2
- Christianity 3
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Christianity is different from all other
religions.
They are the story of humanity's search for
God.
The Gospel is the story of God's search for humans.
Dewi Morgan
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I once read in a
Bible commentary that the word "Christian"
means
"little Christs." What an honor to share
Christ's name! We can be
bold to call ourselves
Christians and bear the stamp of his character
and
reputation. When people find out the you are a
Christian,
they should already have an idea of who you
are and what
you are like simply because you bear such a
precious name.
Joni
Eareckson
Tada
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As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His
feet, we have enough light given to
us to guide our own
steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of
the
councils that determine the course of the great
battle they are in, but hear
plainly enough the word of
command that they must themselves obey.
George Eliot
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In its essence the
Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship,
the experiment
of fellowship, the experiment of trusting
the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in
the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted,
forsaken nor betrayed, and that
your ultimate interests
are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion. This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point
of the Christian religion, which,
when we have it, all
else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is
precarious.
L.P. Jacks |
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An
immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs
anywhere except
in God Himself. True religion begins in the
heart. It is not a mere set of rules
to be obeyed--an example to
be copied. It is Christ coming into the heart and dwelling
there.
James R.
Miller
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Therefore, as God's
chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and
patience. Bear with each
other
and forgive whatever
grievances you have against one another. Forgive
as the
Lord
forgave you. And over all these virtues, put on love,
which
binds them all together
in perfect unity.
The Apostle Paul
in Colossians 3:12-14
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Christ
does not save us by acting a
parable of divine love; He
acts the
parable
of divine love by saving us.
That
is the Christian faith.
Austin Farber |
I
believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has
risen, not only because I see it but because I see
everything in it.
C.S.
Lewis |
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The Christian life
that is joyless is
a discredit to God and a disgrace to
itself.
Maltie D. Babcock |
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A
Christian is nothing but a sinful person who has put him or herself
to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming
better.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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The heart
of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all
holy One; the all powerful One is also
the One full of
mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God
inhabiting some inaccessible
Mount Olympus. He is a God
who cares about His children and cares enormously for the
weak,
the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised.
He takes their side not because they are good,
since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes
their side because He is that kind of God,
and they have
no one else to champion them.
Desmond
Tutu |
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Christianity
is one beggar
telling another beggar where he or she found bread.
D.T. Niles
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Christianity
knows no truth which is not
the child of love and the
parent of duty.
Phillips
Brooks |
Christianity is
the least concerned about
religion of any of the world's
faiths. It is
primarily concerned about life.
T.D. Price |
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The
true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose,
resolute in endeavor,
ready for a hero's deeds, but
never looking down on their task because it is cast
in the
day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as
to
their rights, following the higher
law with reverence, and in this world doing all that
in their power lies, so that when death comes
they may feel that humanity is
in some degree better because they
Theodore Roosevelt |
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No people are true Christians who
do not
think constantly of
how they can lift
their brother and sister, how they can
assist their friends,
how they can
enlighten mankind, how they can make
virtue the
rule
of conduct in the circle
in which they live.
Woodrow
Wilson |
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The first thing that
we have to realize is a fact of fundamental importance,
because it means
breaking away from all the ordinary
prepossessions of orthodoxy. The plain fact is that
Jesus
taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely
spiritual or metaphysical.
Historical Christianity,
unfortunately, has largely concerned itself with
theological and
doctrinal questions which, strange to say,
have no part whatever in the Gospel teaching.
It will
startle many good people to learn that all the doctrines
and theologies of the churches
are human inventions built
up by their authors out of their own mentalities. . . .There
is absolutely
no system of theology of doctrine to be
found in the Bible; it simply is not there.
Emmet Fox |
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Why not make the
following experiment, which will not only be thrillingly
interesting,
but will certainly teach you more in one day
than you could learn
from books or lectures
in many weeks.
Here is what you have to do: For one whole
day think, speak, and act exactly
as you would if you
were absolutely convinced of the truth of the statements
that God has all power and infinite intelligence, and
that His nature is
infinite goodness and love.
To think in this manner all day will be the
most difficult thing, because it is
so subtle. To speak
in accordance with these truths will be easier, if you
are vigilant. To act in accordance with them will be the
easiest part,
although it may require
much in the way of
moral courage.
Emmet Fox |
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It
is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the
constraint and contention
that advance us in our
Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding
of
our wills without restriction and without choice to tread
cheerfully every day
in the path in which Providence
leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged
by
nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to
trust all else
without reserve to the will and power of
God.
François
Fenelon
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True
Christians, who have power over their own will, may live
nobly and happily
and enjoy a clear heaven within the serenity of their own minds perpetually.
When the sea of
this world is roughest and most tempestuous about them,
then they can ride safely at anchor within the haven by a
sweet compliance
of their will with God's will. They can look
about themselves, and with an even
and indifferent mind behold
the world either to smile or frown upon them. Also,
they will not abate in the least
their contentment for all the
ill and unkind usage
they meet with in this life. They who have mastery over
their own will,
feel no violence from
without, find no contests within. When God calls them
out
of this state of mortality, they find in themselves a power
to lay
down their own lives, and it is not so much taken
from them,
as quietly and freely surrendered up by them.
Dr. John Smith
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We cannot say this or that trouble
will not befall, yet we may,
by the help of the Spirit,
say, Nothing that does befall
will make me do that which
is unworthy of a Christian.
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Humans
need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be
pleased to have flowers,
but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a
phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity,
He is
water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live
truly without Christ:
If we know not Christ we are not living,
our movement is a mechanical flutter,
our pulse is but the stirring of
an animal life.
Joseph
Parker |
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Christianity
might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard
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Christianity 2
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This is a cheerful
world as I see it from my garden under the shadows
of my
vines. But if I were to ascend some high mountain and
look out
over the wide lands, you know very well what I
should see: brigands
on the highways, pirates on the sea,
armies fighting, cities burning;
in the amphitheaters men
murdered to please applauding crowds;
selfishness and
cruelty and misery and despair under all roofs.
It is a
bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have
discovered
in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who
have learned a great secret.
They have found a joy which
is a thousand times better than any pleasure
of our
sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they
care not.
They are masters of their souls. They have
overcome the world.
These people, Donatus, are the
Christians--and I am one of them.
St. Cyprian
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Jesus is God spelling himself out in
language
that humans can understand.
S.D. Gordon |
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