“Jesus never pussyfooted”
“You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.”
“Right now, I am in Fallujah. I am in Darfur. I am on Sixty-third and Park having dinner with Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman... Right now, I m on Lafayette and Astor waiting to hit you up for change so I can get high. I m taking a walk through the Rose Garden with George Bush. I m helping Donald Rumsfeld get a good night s sleep...I was in that cave with Osama, and on that plane with Mohamed Atta...And what I want you to know is that your work has barely begun. And what I want you to trust is the efficacy of divine love if practiced consciously. And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, Who I Love is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?”
“Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can t always do that. I don t know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.”
“One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.”
“Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ has given him. Our brother stands before us the sign of the truth and the grace of God. He has been given to us to help us. He hears the confession of our sins in Christ s stead and he forgives our sins in Christ s name. He keeps the secret of our confession as God keeps it. When I go to my brother to confess, I am going to God.”
“The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don t worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He s risen!”
“It s crazy isn t it? She shook her head. You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don t have to believe it, and I think it s beautiful. She shook her head again. It s crazy.”
“Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement, Dietrich answered, so one finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat than there is in pulling weeds.”
“To be in Christ is to place one s trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be in Christ is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be in Christ is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be in Christ is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son s righteous standing.”
“The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He s alone so that we might never be alone.”
“[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn t say you *might* be my witnesses, or you *could* be my witnesses, or even you *should* be my witnesses. He said you *will* be my witnesses.”
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”
“Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.”
“As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.”
“To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.”
“Without faith, a positive attitude is merely us working under our own strength and weak power.”