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When finally the scrolls of history are completed down to the last words in time, the saddest line of all will be: “There was no room in the inn.”
Him. Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.
I am the Author of the Universe and its science. Your scientists are the proofreaders, but not the authors of the Book of Nature; they can see and examine My handiwork, but they cannot create one atom themselves.
for evil can tolerate mediocrity, but not supreme goodness.
If the sinners deny sin and guilt, then who can be their Savior?
The strong in body and the keen in intellect and those who possess the bounties of earth receive their reward in this world; but the poor and the weak often hunger and suffer. Christ was saying that in the Kingdom of Heaven there would be a gospel for the poor. God has another world in which to redress the inequalities of this one.
No wonder there has been such a division of sects in Christianity when each man decides for himself whether he will accept a segment of the circle of Christ’s truth or the whole circle.
Human opinion can give only conflicting, contrary, and contradictory answers.
If any man has a mind to come My way, Let him renounce self, And take up his cross, and follow Me. MARK 8:34
He who tries to save his life will lose it; It is the man who loses his life For My sake, that will save it. LUKE 9:24
The truly good man feels the world is the way it is because in some way he has not been better.
there was no God but the God He revealed, no Truth but His Person, no contentment but in Him.
Human nature is base when it headlines and parades crimes of others before their fellow men.
There are many people who sin by pride, by avarice, by the craving for power, and think that they are virtuous simply because these sins in modern society bear the note of respectability. The respectable sins are the more odious, for Our Lord said that they make men like “whitened sepulchres, outside clean, inside full of dead men’s bones.” The baser sins of the poor create public burdens, such as social service and prisons, and are frowned upon; but the respectable sins, such as corruption in high public office, disloyalty to country, teaching of evil in universities, are excused, ignored or
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He was not the Good Shepherd because He provided economic plenty, but because He would lay down His life for His sheep.
Believe Me when I tell you this; Everyone who acts sinfully is the slave of sin, And the slave cannot make his home in the house forever. JOHN 8:34
Those who refuse to see lose the power to see.
What is of the world, the world never opposes. What is of God, the spirit of the world opposes, maligns, persecutes, and crucifies.
He would go to the Cross not as a martyr but as a Victor.
God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe.
He affirmed that in Him was a life which, by dying, rises to perfection; therefore death was not the end, but the prelude to a resurrection in the newness and fullness of life.
To see evil, and to be unable to remedy it because of human perversity, is the greatest anguish of all.
In the life of every individual and in the life of every nation, there are three moments: a time of visitation or privilege in the form of a blessing from God; a time of rejection in which the Divine is forgotten; and a time of doom or disaster. Judgment (or disaster) is the consequence of human decisions and proves that the world is guided by God’s presence.
it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!
Whether one believes or disbelieves Him, one is never the same afterward. Christ said that He was either the rock on which men would build the foundation of life, or the rock which would crush them.
Truth can be known and hated; Goodness can be known and crucified.
Freedom is not an heirloom, but a life.
Supper. Our Memorial Day was not instituted by soldiers who foresaw their death. But His Memorial was instituted, and this is important, not because He would die like a soldier and be buried, but because He would live again after the Resurrection.
The world loves the worldly; but to preserve its codes, practices, and mental fashions, it must hate the unworldly or the Divine.
it takes more than the spirit of man to make a man holy, or to know the truth; it requires the Spirit of Truth.
Sin, in its fullness, is the rejection of Christ.
Nothing but the Spirit could convince man of sin; conscience could not, for it can sometimes be smothered; public opinion cannot, for it sometimes justifies sin; but the gravest sin of all which the Spirit would reveal would not be intemperance, avarice, or lust, but unbelief in Christ.
Material assault from without must be met by spiritual resistance from within.
A sinner becomes infected with sin.
The people can be misled by false leaders; the very ones who shout “Hosanna” on Sunday can shout “Crucify” on Friday.
The majority is not always right. Majority is right in the field of the relative, but not in the absolute. Majority is a legitimate test so long as voting is based on conscience and not on propaganda. Truth does not win when numbers alone become decisive. Numbers alone can decide a beauty queen, but not justice. Beauty is a matter of taste, but justice is tasteless. Right is still right if nobody is right, and wrong is still wrong if everybody is wrong.
Man thinks that it is his dying that decides his future state; it is rather his living that does that.
God answers no man’s prayer merely to show His power.
The law He gave was clear: life is a struggle; unless there is a Cross in our lives, there will never be an empty tomb; unless there is the crown of thorns, there will never be the halo of light; unless there is a Good Friday, there will never be an Easter Sunday.
Christ is living now! He is teaching now, governing now, sanctifying now—as He did in Judea and Galilee.
