“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.” MayChristLandRocksSorrowQuietFindingsTrialsShelterRefugeWeary Author:J.R. Miller
“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.” NeedsGivingMightChristianOrderUnderstandingChristSawsAtheismMaterialsFindingsProfitPositive AtheismDoctrineEmploymentExplanationMysticismArtificialIntroducingPlatoEverlastingControversyPriesthoodEminence Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.” JoyChristProduceFindingsFruitGuidance Author:David Platt
“Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.” ProblemGoalChristLordMiddleBecomingFindingsPrioritiesRejectsFinding HappinessBecoming MoreTop PrioritiesChrist Like Book:Effective Biblical Counseling Source: Effective Biblical Counseling
“In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.” HandsSocialTermChristFindingsInvestmentInsecurityImitationBoston Author:William Monahan
“I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel - which is the death, resurrection of Christ and the message of his forgiveness - is the only hope for a person knowing that they will go to Heaven and then finding the meaning and purpose they search for in life.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsPurposeHeavenChristKnowingHeardFindingsMessagesResurrection Author:Greg Laurie
“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.” ChristianYoungPurposeCausesChristStudentsCollegeFindingsSaviorYoung WomenEmilyWithout Hope Author:Christopher Benfey
“It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.” SufferingChristAcceptingFindingsCapacityInfiniteUnionsMatureHealedFleeingInfinite Love Author:Pope Benedict XVI