“Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.” DoeChristianFightingChurchAccomplishHarmChristian InspirationalSatanOppositionPullingImitationJoiningWheatSowing Book:Three-Score & Ten Source: Three-Score & Ten
“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.” MenMadeChristianMysteryConditionsAll ThingsBlessedSakeAccomplishGods WillGod LoveOrthodoxWord Of GodHis LoveGraciousOrthodox ChristianEmbodimentExchangingCondescensionInversions Author:Maximus the Confessor
“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.” ThinkingShouldBelieveHas BeensChristianSpiritualFallSinCompassionVirtueDespairInfiniteDown AndRaisesDepthRefuseAccomplishIntellectHeightReachingOrthodoxRighteousnessInfinityRecallsRaise UpSpiritual Knowledge Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?” IfsWorldWayFirstsHeartSelfHelpingHandsChristianPainPurposeDoorsThis WorldSonBrokenShiningAccomplishAriseGods WillPityOpeningWhy NotCollapseFellowshipSelf PityDoorwaysOpening UpDeathbed Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.” MayStatesChristianInterestReligiousLibertyEssentialsAccomplishLimitationJustifyReligious Liberty Author:Warren E. Burger