Why do we tend to love actors' portrayals of misery when we would never wish such suffering upon ourselves?
~ St. Augustine of Hippo

Christian love is unconditional in the sense of accepting, respecting, and showing goodwill to people just as they are, but it is not unconcerned or undiscerning about being beneficent as distinct from mere indulgent.
~ J. Packer

Episcopalianism is great. You don't have to believe in anything.
~ Missouri Episcopal youth group member

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.
~ Pope Benedict XVI

Many people want to serve God, but only as advisors.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
~ C.S. Lewis

No-one arrives in Hell surprised.
~ St. Robert Bellarmine

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The definition of a Christian is someone who has made a choice, has decided to change, and is willing to meet the world’s challenges.
~ Billy Graham

Conditions for a good and lasting relationship: Faith, integrity and humility.

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve;

I was made weak, that I might learn to obey.

I asked for health, that I might do greater things;

I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

I asked for riches, that I might be happy;

I was given poverty, that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;

I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;

I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I asked for;

but everything that I hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.

I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

Sin and pride both have “I” in the middle.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore, we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint;
therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Dear God, Help me recognize my sins, so that I may accept them and ask for your forgiveness.

Forgive our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
~ The Lord’s Prayer

The problem with a self-made man is that he usually falls in love with his creator.
~ Joseph Parker

O, heavenly Father,
We thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
that thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.