“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.” EndsLightChristianChristianityHolyFruitChristian LivingSunlightGreat WorkHoly Living Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon
“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.” IfsThinkingWritingLooksDoeEndsWholeLife IsVoiceChristianityOur LivesPlansMissingDesignBrokenMusic IsBeatsEarsSilentCreatorWhole LifeGods WillLook UpSicknessMelodyDisappointedLeisurePausesEnd TimesHere And ThereHymnsLamentDismayed Author:John Ruskin
“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.” WorldFeelsEndsCultureChurchSituationChristianitySeedsSoilBackyards Book:Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture Source: Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture
“But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.” NeedsMindEndsReasonPhilosophyCareChristianChristianityExampleConceptsSalvationErrorsSatisfactionSatisfiedDistressDeservingDepravity Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.” BelieveEndsChristSinChristianityBloodSalvationDestroyedBeginnings And Ends Author:Martin Luther