If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
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Charles Dickens
Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be...
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Suzy Kassem
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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Brennan Manning
Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.
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Athanasius Of Alexandria
When God wins your heart, He has won it forever.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Mark Galli
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of...
