“Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”
“We might think that the deeper we dig into our own being, the further we travel from God; that’s one way Christianity has regarded the inner self, as a source of sin and separation from God. Quakers, however—and other holistic mystics through the ages—believe that at the deepest level of our beings lies Kelly’s Last Rock, the preexistent Word of John’s Gospel (John 1:1–5). Mental and emotional commotion obscure this bedrock, but someone practiced in disciplined silence spends more and more time absorbed in this Ground of Our Being.”
Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
Source: The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew
“All I knew was that I loved the God of the Bible, and so I pursued Him more and more by reading as much as I could.”
Source: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Source: The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.”
Source: The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew
“We must share our stories. We must believe that we aren’t displaced by war. But placed by destiny.”
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one may boast.”
Source: Ephesians (Bible #49), ESV
“Jesus came to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. It's for this very reason that I received mercy, so that in me, the foremost sinner, Christ could demonstrate His immense patience as an example for those who would believe in Him and receive eternal life.”
Source: 1 Timothy KJV: King James Version
“To you, Pharisees, teachers of law, hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices and mint. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.”
Source: The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew