Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living t….
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?.
Let me make it very clear: when I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant w….
Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his four disciples; nobody els….
Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way..
Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus..
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the abili….
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the sha….
Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven..
My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall..
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calva….
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks..
[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion..
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul..
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist..
Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up..
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the s….
The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, ….
Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and st….
There's a timeless truth behind the concept of giving God our firstfruits. Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits….
Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess fa….