“There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.”
“Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.”
“കൌതുകകരമായ ഒരു നിരീക്ഷണം ഇതാണ്.ഭാരതീയ ചാതുര്‍വര്‍ണ്യത്തിന്റെ പാടങ്ങള്‍ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാല്‍ ക്രിസ്തുവിന്റെതു ഏതു വര്‍ണം ? പിറവികൊണ്ടു ക്ഷത്രിയന്‍ -ദാവിദിന്റെ വംശത്തില്‍ ജനിച്ചവന്‍.തൊഴിലുകൊണ്ട് വൈശ്യന്‍ .സംസര്‍ഗം കൊണ്ട് ശൂദ്രന്‍ - വിജാതിയരുടെയും ചുങ്കക്കാരുടെയും ചങ്ങാതി .ധ്യാനം കൊണ്ടും ബലികൊണ്ടും പുരോഹിതന്‍ . ഒരേസമയം നിന്നിലുണ്ടാകണം ഈ ചതുര്മാനങ്ങള്‍ .തോല്‍ക്കുന്ന യുദ്ധങ്ങളില്‍ ഏര്‍പ്പെടുന്ന പോരാളി ,വിയര്‍പ്പുകൊണ്ട് മാത്രം അപ്പം ഭക്ഷിക്കുന്ന പണിയാളന്‍,ഭ്രഷ്ട് അനുഭവിക്കുന്നവരുടെയും , വിളുബില്‍ വസിക്കുന്നവരുടെയും ചങ്ങാതി .”
“Believers are achievers, therefore believe and achieve! • Believe that you are responsible for your own accomplishments God deposited in you! • Believe that success is not luck; it is the result a deliberate effort to do a hard work! • Believe that prayer works through faith and action! • Believe that great people took great steps. Weak people took weak steps! • Believe that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you!”
“A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief s request touched the reason of His coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard the immediate answer: I promise thee, this day thou shalt be With Me in Paradise (Luke 23:43) It was the thief s last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Saviour.”
“Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ s Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man s lot and participates in his destiny.”
“If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.”
“The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life s twin realities, love and hate.”
“Don t bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don t bring power. Don t bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.”
“In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man s Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man s existence. Despite man s insignificance, God is with him as his Creator who intended and made mankind to be very good. Despite man s sin, God is with him, the One who was in Jesus Christ reconciling the world, drawing man unto Himself in merciful judgment. Man s evil past is not merely crossed out because of its irrelevancy. Rather, it is in the good care of God. Despite man s life in the flesh, corrupt and ephemeral, God is with him. The victor in Christ is here and now present through His Spirit, man s strength, companion, and comfort. Despite man s death God is with him, meeting him as redeemer and perfecter at the threshold of the future to show him the totality of existence in the true light in which the eyes of God beheld it from the beginning and will behold it evermore. In what He is for man and does for man, God ushers in the history leading to the ultimate salvation of man.”
“In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.”
“Christ is born, my wise Solomon, my wretched pen-pusher! Don´t go picking things over with a needle! Is He born or isn´t He? Of course He is born, don´t be daft. If you take a magnifying glass and look at your drinking water-an engineer told me this, one day – you´ll see, he said, the water´s full of little worms you couldn´t see with your naked eye. You´ll see the worms and you won´t drink. You won´t drink and you´ll curl up with thirst. Smash your glass, boss, and the little worms´ll vanish and you can drink and be refreshed!”
“You deserve every mountain falling. You deserve every ocean reaching. You deserve all creation crying out your worth. You deserve all of Heaven singing. You deserve every nation rising, but I have heard that what You want most is my love.”
“I don t care what it looks, I don t care what it feels like, I believe God.”
“if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself”
“So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin s reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.”
“Nowadays, to be sure, we are more “comprehensive.” In particular, we pay more attention to the body. It may even be that we go too far. On the other hand, are there not too many intellectuals about who, without knowing it, have put a muzzle on their hearts, and whose “spiritual life” misses those deep intuitions that are of the world of the spirit? All these people–the “brains,” the spiritualists, as well as those who are embarrassed or engrossed by the body–may be taught Yoga (I saw “may,” because they have to give themselves to it) that they cannot become truly themselves unless they accept their nature as men and aim at establishing balance between the parts of man in is; this nature of ours which is at one and the same time an animal body (corpus-anima), thinking soul (animus-mens) and spirit (spiritus-cor). It is a harmony among these “three” that is sought in each of us by the grace of redemption. Christ came in the first place so that this “creature of God” within us, concealed under a human complex, bruised and torn by original sin, should flower and open out in its full beauty and wealth of talent. Any ascetic discipline that works towards this works, in fact, hand in hand with grace, and that is why I have roundly stated that a Yoga that calms the senses, pacifies the soul, and frees certain intuitive or affective powers in us can be of inestimable service to the West. It can make people into true Christians, dynamic and open, by helping them to be men.”