God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy GrahamRead
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that a born-again Christian views life as intentional and meaningful rather than chaotic.
Billy Graham emphasizes that for a born-again Christian, existence is perceived through a lens of purpose and divine planning. This perspective contrasts with a worldview that sees life as aimless or disorganized, highlighting the significance of faith in crafting a coherent understanding of oneβs experiences and inherent value.
In practice
In a sermon about finding meaning in life's struggles.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all β no one's around to write horror stories.
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.β β Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
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