by ray | Aug 23, 2011 | Quotes
The first and most basic task required of the minister of tomorrow therefore is to clarify the immense confusion which can arise when people enter this new internal world. It is a painful fact indeed to realize how poorly prepared most Christian leaders prove to be...
by ray | Aug 4, 2011 | Book Reviews, Quotes
May God bless you with new insights as you contemplate the mystery of Christ’s passionate love for His church. Chapter 1: The Hidden Romance of the Bible In Genesis 1 and 2, the Bible opens up with a woman and a man. In Revelation 21 and 22, the Bible closes...
by ray | Jun 22, 2011 | Quotes
“Niceness” — wholesome, integrated personality — is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power, to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up “nice”; just as we must try to...
by ray | Jun 22, 2011 | Quotes
…Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not...
by ray | Jun 22, 2011 | Quotes
Dozens of people go to Him [God] to be cured of some one particular sin which they are ashamed of (like cowardice) or which is obviously spoiling daily life (like bad temper). Well, He will cure it all right: but He will not stop there. That may be all you asked; but...
by ray | Jun 21, 2011 | Quotes
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity It is easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects — education, building, missions, holding services. Just as it is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects — military, political, economic, and...