A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?
The vision is always to point one to God and to Christ our Savior and to give Him the glory for our actions. We are encouraged to see the hope that Christ brings into our lives and to share the encouragement with our friends and neighbors.
All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.
In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ. . . the decisive die has. . . been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ.
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.
I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.
And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.