Christian Quotation Of The Day

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There is a story of a child telling her teacher that she was drawing a picture of God.

"But, no one knows what God looks like," explained the teacher.

Nonplused at that claim, the child said, "well they will when I'm through."

 

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"On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does not know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him." -Karl Barth-

 

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"On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars." -Brennan Manning-

 

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"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings." -George MacDonald-

 

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"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings." -George MacDonald-

George MacDonald was a jewel.

 

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George MacDonald was a jewel.

My favorite Hermit, there is no one person who has so inspired me with the depth of George MacDonald. He is a rare jewel with a capital "J".

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.” -George MacDonald-

 

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"In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, somewhere deep down a Voice whispers, “All is well, and all will be well..”

 

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When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom. -Hans Urs von Balthasar-

 

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“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.” - Benjamin Franklin-

 

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"Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them." -Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Love Alone is Credible” - Hans Urs von Balthaser-

"Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led." -Hans Urs von Balthasar-

 

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“What the father planted will be harvested, and nothing will get in the way. Not heresies, schisms, ecclesiastical blunders, defections, moral failures; not if the budget isn't balanced; not if I can't find a way to end this book; not persecutions or nuclear holocausts—nothing will obstruct the coming of the Kingdom.” -Brennan Manning-

“While there is much we may have earned--our degree and our salary, our home and garden, a Miller Lite and a good night's sleep--all this is possible only because we have been given so much: life itself, eyes to see and hands to touch, a mind to shape ideas, and a heart to beat with love. We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt. This and so much more is sheer gift” -Brennan Manning-

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up & Burnt Out.

 

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"Life is not a test, so God can discover what we would do.

Life is a test, so we would discover what God does do." -Peter Heitt-

 

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"The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.” -Brennan Manning-

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, & Burnt Out

 

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"Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion." -Karl Barth-

 

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"God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness." -David Bentley Hart-

 

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"This Word of God is followed by the heavenly armies one and all; they follow the Word as their leader, and imitate Him in all things, and chiefly in having mounted, they also, white horses. To him that understands, this secret is open. And as sorrow and grief and wailing fled away at the end of things, so also, I suppose, did obscurity and doubt, all the mysteries of God's wisdom being precisely and clearly opened. Look also at the white horses of the followers of the Word and at the white and pure linen with which they were clothed. As linen comes out of the earth, may not those linen garments stand for the dialects on the earth in which those voices are clothed which make clear announcements of things? We have dealt at some length with the statements found in the Apocalypse about the Word of God; it is important for us to know clearly about Him." -Origen-

 

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“We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”

- Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out-

 

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"Ragamuffin Gospel is for smart people who know they are stupid and honest disciples who admit they are scalawags."

"The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper."

"The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a far larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle." -Brannan Manning

 

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"We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it." -Madeleine L'Engle-

"We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are." -Madeleine L'Engle-

 

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"And how is He Savior and Lord if not the Savior and Lord of all?

But He is the Savior of those who have believed, because of their wishing to know. And the Lord of those who have not believed, til, being enabled to confess Him." -Clement of Alexandria-