“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.” MenReasonChristModernMankindLonelinessCryPridePureIntellectualConscienceTraditionEmptyClaimsPrejudiceIntuitionVanitySatanWildernessLive ByArrogantTemptedDeprivedWisestModern ManWitheredExpanseWasteland Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?” ChristianSpiritGivenNationsChristBornDifferencesChurchSinAbilityPowerfulOur LivesIntegrityHolyClaimsBlameSignificantHoly SpiritSanityBorn AgainHardenedPowerful Words Author:Francis Chan
“You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.” HeartMayStillsLightChristianHateTurnsJesusChristWalksLeaderDarknessWorstMankindWalkingProveClaimsAtheistRefuseHorribleConfusedCommunistJesus LoveCommunist Leaders Author:David Wilkerson
“We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.” NeedsGivingUseTodaySpiritualLife IsJesusChristJusticeForeverGraceBecomingJesus ChristMercyClaimsConquerThis LifeImmortalMortalityAdversariesBattlefieldsAtonementLive ForeverCleansingJustice And Mercy Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.” BeautifulNamesChristBehindsLibertyCallingClaimsPrivilegeDrawingServantGloriousDiscipleBehind You Author:Horace Bushnell
“Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.” ChristJusticeTaughtLessonsClaimsSublimeVinesTaught UsParablesDressers Author:James F. Cooper
“Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God's revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours - all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.” PeopleIfsShouldSometimesChristianChristEnemyTruth IsDiscoveryClaimsDependentFreakSovereignSovereignty Author:Matt Chandler
“Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.” WorldBelieveMadeFactsChristianChristSonEqualClaimsFundamentalsThis LifeEasterRisenReconcileConfirmationUnwaveringHe Has Risen Author:B. B. Warfield
“The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.” ChristClaimsTrialsWitnessOath Author:Max Lucado
“It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.” PeopleFirstsBelieveHumansLittlesShowsEarthJesusBeliefChristChristianityClassPracticeMessagesClaimsTragedyFirst ClassPrince Of Peace Book:Gandhi on Nehru Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.” ThinkingShouldTogetherChristDifferencesFunctionClaimsVariousFollowersDay To DayMany FriendsBeing Together Author:Billy Graham
“Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.” MenSchoolNamesChristHeroClaimsRatePassing AwaySecond RateGreatest Man Author:Swami Vivekananda
“On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.” PeopleShouldLittlesUseUsedJesusNamesBeliefChristReligiousPowerfulIssuesPositionWeaponsJesus ChristClaimsDebateSupremeCompromiseAlliesBehalfReligious BeliefSupreme BeingPowerful WeaponsNo Compromise Author:Barry Goldwater
“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.” WayWantHumansHeartDesireTurnsFightingCausesChristSinRaceAcceptingTakenOur LivesGroupsPrideBattleAnd LoveClaimsSuperiorsWithin YouHuman HeartStrifeWant UQuarrelsLove Each OtherEthnicityPeace And LoveChristian LoveBible VerseEthnic Groups Author:Billy Graham