“A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.” KnowsMenLooksMayChristianDifferencesChurchLordAliveSightChristian InspirationalGod KnowsDead ManLord GodMorticians Author:Vance Havner
“It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.” WellsEndsChristianPerfectSightOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianApproved Author:Saint Basil
“...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.” KnowsWayNeedsChristianLordAnxietySightHeavyLive ByPreacherTrusted Author:Lester Roloff
“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".” WorldFirstsHumansSeemsChristianLastsCertainValuesTermReligiousResultsMoralCenturyElementsIdealsSightStressTendenciesMoral ValuesIncline Book:The Divine Milieu Source: The Divine Milieu
“A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.” LightAgeChristianSidesYouthSightActiveAidsWitGrievingOffensiveBeam Author:William Cowper
“I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.” IfsKnowsMenSoulChristianJesusChristJesus ChristSightRecognitionFollowersImperfectRejoiceOld DaysAcknowledgment Author:Phillips Brooks
“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