Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
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William Wilberforce
Language is the key to the heart of people.
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Ahmed Deedat
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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Francine Rivers
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and...
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Joshua Harris
More Quotes By Henri Nouwen
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without...
...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
