“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life.”

There has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour.

Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer.

It is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life.

It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

The Lord Himself is our vesture.

There has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit.

But there is nothing you can do until you pray.

To overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward .

We are so to enter into Him by communion.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life.

Not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

As they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

And truant affections of the natural heart – this is what is needed.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

[Christian from the Fifty Shades Darker] is definitely a good person. I mean, he’s flawed like all of us, you know? And I guess all of his wounds or his trauma, he acts out sexually. Which is pretty normal. People have different wounds, people act different things out.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Haiti is unique – the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it’s like nothing the world has ever seen.

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God – Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia.

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.