The life of faith does not earn eternal life; it is eternal life; and Christ is the vehicle.
William Temple
Lift your glad voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen and man cannot die.
Henry Ware, Jr.
In the Cross is salvation, in the Cross is life, in the Cross is protection from our enemies, in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness, in the Cross is a strength of mind, in the Cross is joy of spirit, in the Cross is the height of virtue, in the Cross is perfection of sanctity.
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They who are conscious of their own sins have no eyes for the sins of their neighbors.
Abbott Moses in the wisdom of the Desert
Maybe Lent is a good time to stop doing an try being...Relinquishment lies at the heart of the Christian gospel and is a countercultural choice that hones our discipleship. If I let go of the assumption that my hard work will bring me all that I desire, I begin to look at the present moment, r...
The sweetest life a man can live is that which is keyed to love toward God and love toward man.
-- Henry W. Beecher
They are the true disciples of Christ, not who knows most, but who love most.
-- Frederick Spanheim
The Heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing...It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensees
