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Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.
Oct 1, 2025
In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.
Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.
Viewers all over the world, whatever medium you are using to view us, on Emmanuel TV, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, I command a new dream to come true, in Jesus' name!
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.
If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'
One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.
The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and the Savior of all we will ever know or meet.
No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.
God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.
My yoke is easy, and my burden light.
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.
People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, 'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say, 'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,' but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God's blessed Son.
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.