To set God’s name to politics does not turn the scales any more than to say ‘now in God’s name I am going out to steal’, or – ‘in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I shall go hang myself. What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day...
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.
My mission is to introduce Christianity into Christendom. --from Awakening to the Adventure of Jesus Indeed
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.
You have loved us first, O God, alas! We speak of it in terms of history as if You loved us first but a single time, rather than without ceasing. You have loved us first many times and every day and our whole life through. When we wake up in the morning and turn our...
In the theater, the play is staged before an audience who are called theatergoers; but at the devotional address, God himself is present. In the most earnest sense, God is the critical theatergoer, who looks on to see how the lines are spoken and how they are listened...
The opposite of sin is not virtue; the opposite of sin is freedom.