"Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. ‘The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared’"
- Martin Luther (via cafespirit)
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"We don’t get to decide who God is."
- Francis Chan (via anneleephoto)
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"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of god: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
- C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity (via cafespirit)
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"My citizenship is in heaven. My mind is not set on earthly things; so when earthly things fall apart, I’m not going to fall apart."
- Francis Chan (via cafespirit)
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"We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain sort."
- C.S. Lewis (via godmoves)
"I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out."
- Ravi Zacharias (via backtothefucha)
"Jesus Christ is not valued at all until He is valued above all."
- Augustine (via screamtheprayer)
