 Pure morality points you to the purest one of all. When impure, it points you to yourself. The purer your habits, the closer to God you will come. Moralizing from impure motives takes you away from God. Topics: Morality, Purity |
| Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit. Topics: Perseverance |
| A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. Topics: Rebellion |
| One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it. Topics: Scripture, Heaven, Forgiveness |
| It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin. Topics: Sin, The Cross |
| I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time. Topics: Struggles
Source: Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows |
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| God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross. Topics: The Heart, The Cross |
| The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about. Topics: The Heart, The Cross, The Gospel |
| Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. Topics: Time, The Heart |
| With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. Topics: Truth
Source: The Real Face of Atheism |
| Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive. Topics: Truth |
| For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship. Topics: Worship, Life |
