“He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.” MenSometimesChristianHatePerfectHe ManDependsBlessedOrthodoxDispositionPerfect Love Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.” ShouldKindWholeChristianGrowthPoorPovertyRichDependsMajorityConsumersConsumerismUnlimitedOverconsumptionStimulationCovetousnessNonconformist Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.” StatesReasonChristianOrderFatherMemoriesExistenceSupportVirtueWiseYouthDependsImportanceEncouragementInstitutionsFoundationInstanceMannersAffectedBlessRepublicSensiblePosterityOur FatherPietyGood EducationSupport And Encouragement Author:John Hancock
“... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.” IfsSoulChristianChristDependsOughtDeedsMy SoulOrthodoxCommandmentsOrthodox Christian Author:Saint Basil
“What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.” IfsNeedsLooksSelfChristianSpiritJesusChristWalksLordDependsWalkingGloryDrawsJesus ChristBelieverOccupationLord Jesus Christ Author:Arno C. Gaebelein
“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.” MenChristianIndividualEventsDependsGeniusStonesAbsolutesTreasureCertaintyOutcomesMisfortunesAbyssStepping Stones Author:Honore de Balzac
“If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.” IfsMayAbleChristianDependsClaimsOver YouAfflictionTesting Author:George Wigram