#vin

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. ↗

— Max Lucado

#max-lucado #nonfiction #christian-living

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human. ↗

— Rob Bell

#sexuality #christian-living

It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#christian-living

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#spirituality #christian-living

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#greatness #self-consciousness #christian-living

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#prayer #christian-living

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#church #poverty #christian-living

remember you are not you, now. you are you a year from now. how does that woman walk? she is not sick or sad. doesn’t even remember today. has been to Europe. what song is she humming? now. right now. that’s it. ↗

— Marty McConnell

#moving-on #strength #breakups

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing