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“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.”

Men Sometimes Christian Hate Perfect He Man Depends Blessed Orthodox Disposition Perfect 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.”

Should Kind Whole Christian Growth Poor Poverty Rich Depends Majority Consumers Consumerism Unlimited Overconsumption Stimulation Covetousness Nonconformist

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.”

“... 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.”

Ifs Soul Christian Christ Depends Ought Deeds My Soul Orthodox Commandments Orthodox 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.”

Ifs Needs Looks Self Christian Spirit Jesus Christ Walks Lord Depends Walking Glory Draws Jesus Christ Believer Occupation Lord 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.”

Men Christian Individual Events Depends Genius Stones Absolutes Treasure Certainty Outcomes Misfortunes Abyss Stepping 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.”

Ifs May Able Christian Depends Claims Over You Affliction Testing

Author:George Wigram

“God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.”

Christian Sin Break Hell Depends Blessing Bases Perseverance Saint Christian Life Ties Adoption Pillars Knots Decree Chastisement

Book:A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

“That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.”

Christian Christ Principles Clear Depends Becoming Authority Validity

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.”

Christian Christ Records Depends Tests Miracle Delusion Resurrection Falsehood

Book:The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

Source: The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

“Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.”

Believe Christian Term Depends Contradiction

Author:Timothy Keller

“I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Christian religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in no religion. It just depends on how you feel on the inside.”

Thinking Feels Christian Belief Depends Buddhist How You Feel

Author:Cristian Machado

“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.”