“The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.” WayWellsChristianOrderLeftLosesDealsWonderGoneGoes OnSpringTragedyMeetingsDrawingChristian LifeDesperateSundayMondayEverlastingTuesdayWednesdayRefreshmentsEverlasting Life Author:Martyn
“... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).” LooksLittlesHas BeensChristianLosesPerfectTroubleJudgingRewardsIllTrialsOrthodoxCfsHelpers Author:Saint Basil
“How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.” LittlesChristianUsedLosesWonderHolyBoredHeavenlyUnusualPreacherAccustomedSolemnSense Of Wonder Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.” IfsHeartKindChristianJobsNightLosesSleepChristianityLordTearsBrokenCostDollarsGood Christian Author:John R. Rice
“There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.” IfsMayChristianLosesWealthPrinciplesSupportSecurityOriginalsMisfortunesDispositionBrightnessChristian FaithDestituteNeediness Book:The Doctor, &c Source: The Doctor, &c
“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.” IfsMightChristianGoalPresidentChristLosesReligiousSinTreeAtheismHolyAimPositive AtheismCommitLabelsMake SenseHolidayOwnersTargetShoppingPaganMallsBusiness OwnersHappy HolidaysHoly DaysMistletoe Author:Charles Haynes
“Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.” MayChristianPassionJesusForceNationsChristLosesPrayerKnownLeaderMoralPracticePrayingJesus ChristConcernVocabularyRedeemingRedeeming Love Author:Robert E. Lee
“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.” IfsMenShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensSelfChristianJesusIndividualProcessTermBornLosesLossLove YouTaughtDefinedFulfillmentLove YourselfSplitsCommandmentsOne LoveNurturingAssertionManlinessHis Loss Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.” MindChristianLosesReligiousWonderEmotionalTreatsSightCourtPressesPushingAffliction Author:Robert Bork
“It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.” IfsMenHandsWould BeChristianFoundJesusEasyChristLosesBreakFireSafeJesus ChristAll ThingsBiggerSticksCalmDenyStormTrialsGathering Author:George Whitefield
“When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God’s simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.” ChristianFatherLosesChurchForgetAttitudeColdSimplicityIdeologyTendernessWorldlyCaress Author:Pope Francis