“You aren t doing God s will unless you re doing it God s way.”
“Christmas is God’s way of saying that we’re great, just not in the arrogant way that we think we are.”
“Heaven is where Christmas came from. And if we give it permission to do so, someday it will take us back there with it.”
“Fear happens when I can no longer see how small the situation is because I’ve lost the sense of how big God is.”
“The absence of sin doesn’t create the presence of Jesus. The presence of Jesus creates the absence of sin.”
“I believe Jesus wasn t thinking about miracle when He performed it. He s just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom.”
“Obedience is not a prerequisite for communion.”
“As Paulus ’n rassis was, was nie een van ons vandag ’n Christen nie.”
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that s Moses, not Jesus. I haven t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. Blessed are the merciful in a courtroom? Blessed are the peacemakers in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”
“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever s making the decision to understand that once it s pushed, it s over. Finito. They re not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won t be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn t just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.”
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don t.”