“The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.” ChristianLife IsJesusChristChristianityLordJesus ChristEssenceDepthFollowingChristian LifeSubstanceHeightLengthLoving LifeLord Jesus ChristBreadthObeyingEntiretyLoving Him Book:The Kind of Preaching God Blesses Source: The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
“For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.” MenWarFormAbilityLordCreationDivineEssenceGods WillDeclaringDenominationsMein KampfDivine WillReligious ViewsDeclaring War Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.” KnowsTwoLordEssenceCatholicFoundationCharityNeighborCommandmentsConformCatholic Faith Author:Pier Giorgio Frassati
“Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.” GivingMayRealCharacterSpiritualFormLanguagePrayerLordEssenceBreatheHolinessSpiritual LifeWoeFoeLungsShrinksReal Character Author:Edward McKendree Bounds
“Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.” IfsThinkingWorldInspirationalGivingShouldMeanChristianJesusNamesChristReligiousLordStruggleBecomingHolyEternalJesus ChristEssenceSaintSavedHolinessSinnerOrthodoxDeceivingIncentivesImperativesTrustworthyWithout HopeBlessedness Author:Patriarch Philaret of Moscow
“I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.” I CanEnoughFeelingsPainJesusFeltSinPayLordSacrificeBloodEssenceAddAcceptedGuiltyInsultGood EnoughUnnecessaryForgivenNot Good EnoughFeeling Guilty Author:Joyce Meyer
“The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.” SpiritPrayerLordMeditationPeriodsEssenceContemplatingListening To God Book:How to Listen to God Source: How to Listen to God
“The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.” PeopleMenWarFormReligiousAbilityTalkingLordCreationDivineParticularDutyLetting GoEssenceSacredGods WillCatholicismDeclaringDenominationsMein KampfDivine WillReligious ViewsDeclaring War Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.” MenWorldHumansRealEvilHuman BeingsLordDarknessImaginePoetCapacityEssenceNuclearPostsInabilityCapturedNobelStarksByron Author:Bernard Lown