Christian Wisdom: October 2008 Archives

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

--Unknown

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ""I love you.""

--Billy Graham

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.

--Matthew 5:13 (Revised Standard Version)

We need the spirit of Christ, without whom all our works are only worthy of condemnation.

--Martin Luther

Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.

--Blaise Pascal

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.--John 7:18 (Revised Standard Version)...

If God is your love and your purpose, the chief aim of your heart, it is all you need in this life...Such a blind shot with the sharp dart of longing will never miss its mark, which is God.--The Cloud...