It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone... which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart....
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and well being he may be enabled to labour... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
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1, 2, 3 John: Comfort and Counsel for a Church in Crisis By W. Hall Harris III The letters of John have traditionally been labeled "general" epistles because no specific destination is mentioned, but an interpretation based on that assumption, that these letters were written to the early church at large, means that concepts such as love for fellow believers must be treated as generic, thus reducing them almost to platitudes. Reading the letters this way, one would not realize that the original author aimed his words at a very specific and deadly serious situation confronted by the group of local congregations to whom he ministered and for which he felt responsibility for oversight. The issues the author confronted shook to the roots the very concept of Christian fellowship itself. They also involved a doctrinal controversy that would ultimately raise the question of the very way in which the Spirit was expected to operate in the ongoing life of the church. |
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Informational Website
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
People seem to think that the masses are outside the Christian church because our evangelistic methods are not what they ought to be. That is not the answer. People are outside the church because looking at us they say, "What is the point of being Christians? - look at them!" They are judging Christ by you and me. And you cannot stop them and you cannot blame them.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
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The Hospitality Commands: Building Loving Christian Community By Alexander Strauch Hospitality is a crucial element in building Christian community. Hospitality may well be the best means we have to promote close, brotherly love. It is especially important in churches where people really don't know each other or where relationships are superficial, Sunday morning only relationships. Hospitality is also an effective tool for evangelism. Showing Christ's love to others in a home environment may be the only means Christians have to reach their neighbours for Christ. A Christian home can be a lighthouse for God in a spiritually dark neighbourhood. It also contains study questions and assignments for group study, making it an excellent resource for an adult Sunday school class or small group fellowship. |
There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.
William T. Ham
Make it a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say: "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day."
Charles Kingsley
Biography
In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable. Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
Biography
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MacAuley
Those who live in the Lord never see each other the last time.
German Proverb
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
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Welcome to the Family By John MacArthur Know somebody who's just recently put their faith in Christ? Best-selling author and Bible teacher John MacArthur's handy guide provides an easy-reading introduction to the new expectations, vocabulary, and challenges young Christians often encounter; along with tips on how to "plug in" to a church and become part of a fellowship of believers. |
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
Jean Vanier
Biography
It does not take a perfect church to introduce a man to the perfect Christ.
Richard Woodsome
We can never hear the warning often enough. The tongue (or typing finger) may be small, but oh so deadly when not under the sanctifying grace of God.
Lin Pearson
Effective Children's Ministry
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.
Neil T. Anderson
Freedom in Christ Ministries
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.
Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
Insight For Living
If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did when, just after His disciples has wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye are they which continue with Me in my temptations," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography And Bibliography
Unity is necessary to the outpouring of the Spirit of God. If you have 120 volts of electricity coming into your house but you have broken wiring, you may turn on the switch, but nothing works - no lights come on, the stove doesn't warm, the radio doesn't turn on. Why? Because you have broken wiring. The power is ready to do its work..., but where there is broken wiring, there is no power. Unity is necessary among the children of God if we are going to know the flow of power...to see God do His wonders.
A. W. Tozer
The Works Of A. W. Tozer
Rich is the person who has a praying friend.
Janice Hughes
How can we be strangers, if we both follow Christ?
Anonymous
Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary - and that God is listening while you tell it.
William Penn
Biography
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
To me it is nothing when I am applauded and well spoken of. There is only one thing I ask of you-to prove your approval of me through your works. That is how you can speak well of me, and that is what is going to do you good. This, to me, is the greatest honour. I prefer it to a material crown. I do not desire applause and being well spoken of. I have one request to make-for you to listen to me in quiet attentiveness and to put my advice into practice. This is not a theatre. You don't sit here in order to admire actors and to applaud them. This is a place where you must learn the things of God.
John Chrysostom
Biography
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