“Christ’s fourth indirect claim was to judge the world. This is perhaps the most fantastic of all his statements. Several of his parables imply that he will come back at the end of the world, and that the final day of reckoning will be postponed until his return. He will himself arouse the dead, and all the nations will be gathered before him. He will sit on the throne of his glory, and the judgment will be committed to him by the Father. He will then separate men from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats. Some will be invited to come and inherit the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world. Others will hear the dreadful words, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Not only will Jesus be the judge, but the criterion of judgment will be men’s attitude to him as shown in their treatment of his brethren or their response to his word. Those who have acknowledged him before men he will acknowledge before his Father: those who have denied him, he will deny. Indeed, for a man to be excluded from heaven on the last day, it will be enough for Jesus to say, I never knew you.”
“Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.”
“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
“Christ did not descend from the cross except into the grave. And why not otherwise? Wouldn’t it have put fine comical expressions on the faces of the scribes and chief priests and the soldiers if at that moment He had come down in power and glory? Why didn’t He do it? Why hasn’t He done it at any one of a thousand good times between then and now? I knew the answer. I knew it a long time before I could admit it, for all the suffering of the world is in it. He didn’t, He hasn’t, because from the moment He did, He would be the absolute tyrant of the world and we would be His slaves. Even those who hated Him and hated one another and hated their own souls would have to believe in Him then. From that moment the possibility that we might be bound to Him and He to us and us to one another by love forever would be ended. And so, I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.”
“Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.”
“Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.”
“In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.”
“Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.”
“Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ s love in your life today?”
“The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.”
“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.”