Seeking & Sharing Christ
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart...Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
-- Hannah Moore, "Christianity a Practical Principal," in Practical Piety
From the human perspective when you compare [God] to the other gods of other religions in the world, you have to say our God is really sort of odd. He uses the most common of people, people that aren't any different from any of us here; he comes in the most common of ways, when by his Spirit a...
Let us revel in the light of that star beneath which the ordinary becomes holy and the holy ordinary, beneath which it becomes exceedingly clear that there is nothing more we must do or be to be loved by God.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor, "Deckled Out in Flesh," sermon in Mixed Blessings</i...
Christmas is fast approaching. And now that Christ has aroused our seasonal expectations, he'll soon fulfill them all!
-- Augustine, Sermon 51, translated by William Griffen in Sermons to the People
It was not suddenly and unannounced that Jesus came into the world. He came into a world that had been prepared for him. The Old Testament is the story of a special preparation...Only when all was ready , only in the fullness of his time, did Jesus come.
-- Phillip Brooks, The Consolations...
Remember: When you talk you only repeat what you know, but if you listen you may learn something.
-- Amish School Proverb
The first evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in us is that people will see Jesus in our lives (see Acts 4:13).
-- Tom Skinner (sermon)
This, then, is how you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name."
-- Matthew 6:9
"Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God the Almighty, who was and is and is to come...You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."
-- Revelation 4:8-11, NRSV
If we have no real interest in praising him, it shows that we have never realized who he is. For when one becomes conscious of who God really is , and when one realizes that he who is almighty, and infinitely holy, has "done great things to us," the only possible reaction is the cry of hal...
