Seeking & Sharing Christ
Heading in the wrong direction? God allows U-turns.
-- Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
Once I was lost...and now I am found!
And the difference is the Gospel.
Once I was dead...and now I am alive!
And the difference if Jesus.
Once I was blind...and now I see!
And the difference is the good news of God's love.
Once I was enslaved...and now I am free!
And the difference is ...
Friendship with God introduces us into God's universal friendship, in which we are commanded to love every person as our neighbor.
Liz Carmichael, Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love
Lord, may your grace help me to want what you want, to prefer what you prefer.
-- Dom Helder Camara, Through the Gospel with Dom Helder Camara
May God support us all the day long, til the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of live is over, and our work is done - then in His mercy - may He give us safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at last. Amen
-- Attributed to Cardinal John Henr...
Biblical righteousness is more than a private affair; it includes social righteousness as well......Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the whole human community as something pleasing to a righteous God.
-- John R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
God's kingdom is not a place, but rather a relationship. It exists wherever people enthrone Jesus as Lord of their lives.
-- J.I. Packer, Growing in Christ
It is night after a long day. What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done; let it be.
-- Evening Prayer from Sing the Journey
Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
-- Philo of Alexandria, quoted in Dan Wakefield, How do we Know When It's God?
Grace is the love that takes us by surprise. It's help we hadn't counted on, the kindness we didn't think we deserved. And maybe we don't, but it's there anyway, and this is how we survive most of out disasters.
-- Lawrence Wood, One Hundred Tons of Ice and Other Gospel Stories (Westmi...
