December 25, 2002
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
George Matthew Adams
October 23, 2007
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
George Matthew Adams
April 18, 2002
Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted; Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done; The work began when first your prayer was uttered, And God will finish what He has begun. Though years have passed since then, do not despair; His glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere.
Ophelia Adams
February 5, 2004
If all you have found [in Christianity] is advantage, whether it is fun or profit or security, then you haven't started following Him yet. His way is the way of the Cross. The world can be very hard on those it hates. If it is not hard on you, perhaps it sees nothing in you to hate. But then it doesn't see Jesus in you, for it hates Jesus with an undying hatred. While your way is still all fun, all easy, all jolly, it is only your way: when you turn from it to follow His way, it will cost. It may cost you everything you have. That is what it cost Him.
Robert MacColl Adams
June 16, 2003
There is no effort comparable to prayer to God. In fact, whenever you want to pray, hostile demons try to interrupt you. Of course they know that nothing but prayer to God entangles them. Certainly when you undertake any other good work, and persevere in it, you obtain rest. But prayer is a battle all the way to the last breath.
Agathon
August 20, 2002
In the midst of our dark and foggy times, all sorts of voices are shouting orders into the night, telling us what to do, how to adjust our lives. Out of the darkness, one voice signals something quite opposite to the rest - something almost absurd. But the voice happens to be the Light of the World, and we ignore it at our peril.
Paul Aiello, Jr.
Biography
July 24, 2007
God sent Elijah to the brook and it dried up. It did not prove equal to the need of the prophet. It failed; God knew it would; He made it to fail. "The brook dried up." This is an aspect of the Divine providence that sorely perplexes our minds and tries our faith. God knows that there are heavenly whispers that men cannot hear till the drought of trouble and perhaps weariness has silenced the babbling brooks of joy. And He is not satisfied until we have learned to depend, not upon His gifts, but upon Himself.
Percy Ainsworth
March 22, 2006
We can never cling to a besetting sin with one hand, and grasp Jesus Christ with the other. Until thou art content to reckon thyself dead indeed to every known form of sin, whether thou thinkest it small or great, thou never canst follow Jesus.
Wm. Hay M. H. Aitken
August 18, 2006
Christ prays for unity, not uniformity. Where there are great pressures for uniformity, we should be suspicious. Christians do not have to look, dress, think, and act alike. The church is not an assembly line producing only Fords.
Joe Aldrich
January 31, 2004
Modern man wants to be treated as an invalid rather than a sinner.
Eric Alexander
December 26, 2001
When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
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All Things Are Possible Through Prayer, 45th ann. ed. By Charles L. Allen All Things Are Possible Through Prayer is a practical comforting guide to effective prayer by the best-selling author of God's Psychiatry. Beautifully written, this classic has sold more than 600,000 copies and continues to help Christians grasp the power of prayer, seek God's help, and understand his will. It reminds readers that with God nothing is hopeless. Allen points out some of the locked doors of life, such as healing and peace of mind, and offers the "prayer-keys" that will open them. Readers will also discover how to surrender desires to God, find confidence and hope, and pray for others. |
October 16, 2002
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
Joseph Alleine
September 11, 2006
Be awed that in our unrighteous anger God reveals the depth of His love on our behalf. It is a heart that is willing to feel angry enough to battle with God that will be surprised into praise. And nothing, but nothing, is the cure for anger like the wonder of grace. It is praise for His grace even in the light of our impotency to eradicate our unrighteous anger that leads, in time, to waiting for God's wrath rather than seeking revenge today.
Dan Allender
The Path Less Chosen
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Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths |
July 10, 2007
To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely worth dying to this misery-making self for. And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.
The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn
Florence Allshorn
May 10, 2004
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
Ambrose
Biography
March 4, 2005
It becomes Christians to pray for peace and quiet, but not to abandon steadfast faith and truth, even at the peril of death.
Ambrose of Milan
Biography
December 6, 2001
"You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful." We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
Dr. Dennis Anderson
August 12, 2002
It is God that girdeth me with strength." One of the few articles of Eastern dress which I wore in the East, was the girdle, which was of great use as a support to the body in the long and weary camel-rides through the Desert. The support and strengthening I received in this way, gave me a clearer idea than I had before of the meaning of the psalmist.
John Anderson
September 10, 2001
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
Biography
October 3, 2005
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
Biography
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The Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, 5 Vols. By St. Thomas Aquinas; English Dominicans, trans. No theologian has had such a decisive impact on Catholic thought as Aquinas. The Summa Theologica, his brilliant 13th century synthesis of Christian thought, has become substantially the official teaching of the Catholic Church. This complete English edition was translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. 3104 pages total, five softcovers from Christian Classics. |
February 3, 2006
Be assured that one who shall always walk faithfully in God's presence, always ready to given Him an account of his/her actions, shall never be separated from God by consenting to sin.
Thomas Aquinas
Biography
February 7, 2008
Give me, O Lord, a steadfast heart which no unworthy thought can drag downwards; an unconquered heart which no tribulation can wear out; an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon me also, O Lord my God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Thomas Aquinas
Biography
May 2, 2003
We ought.... to pray for relationships that are going well or which have minor problems well within our power to rectify. Such prayer acknowledges that everything depends on God. It can contribute to God's plan "to gather up all things in Christ" (Ephesians 1:10)
Glen Argan
Editor WCR
February 28, 2004
A spiritually awake person would see everything as gift, even suffering. We deserve nothing and yet we so often act as though we deserve everything. Nothing should be taken for granted. We should say thank you every day to God and to each other for all that is provided for us. This is one reason why fasting is such an important spiritual discipline. Not just fasting from food, but also fasting from cars, shopping centres, the news - whatever we have an inordinate attachment to. Fasting can help re-kindle our gratitude for all that we have been given.
Glen Argan
Editor WCR
August 30, 2007
Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.
Concepcion Cabrera de Armida May 6, 2006
Your worthiness gives you no help, and your unworthiness does not harm you. As one drop of water is as compared to the great ocean, so are my sins as compared with God's incomprehensible grace in Christ.
Johann Arndt
Brief Biography
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Johann Arndt: True Christianity By Peter Erb, trans. Johann Arndt lived in a time when rational orthodoxy with all of its "headiness" was struggling with the movement in the church to be more "pietistic" in emphasis. Arndt encouraged a reading behind the Lutheran orthodox doctrine of the day to see what Luther was really about, that is the living out of faith. Arndt encouraged a movement towards perfectionism and growth in spirituality. His work "True Christianity" is here translated from the German. |
December 22, 2004
The best gifts to give:
To your friend, loyalty;
To your enemy, forgiveness;
To your boss, service;
To a child, a good example;
To your parents, gratitude and devotion;
To your mate, love and faithfulness;
To all men and women, charity.
Oren Arnold
October 21, 2004
Sometimes I ponder the whys of life. It seems to me I've been handed a strange assortment of circumstances with which to contend. I've even complained that I've not liked the way things were going, and then I stop and look back on my life and see how God has worked and put everything together so beautifully. My life's been full of challenges God has turned into blessings, and my "Why God?" has turned into a triumphant "Why not!"
Ginny Arnt
February 18, 2002
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
John H Aughey
Bibliography
January 31, 2007
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
John H Aughey
Bibliography
April 24, 2005
Here I was worrying about my trip, while God was helping me all the way. I made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul... because I know that he never faileth. I would not, if I could, turn back now, because I believe that God is going to reveal Himself in a wonderful way.
Gladys Aylward
Biography
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