The cross was a pulpit in which Christ preached his love to the world.
HT: @bradbridges
Category Archives: Augustine
The Creator Becomes the Created
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Do You Believe the Gospel?
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Trusting God with Your Past, Present, and Future
Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.
HT: @toddadkins
The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things… Who Can Know It?
My sin was the more incurable for my conviction that I was not a sinner.
HT: @JeanEstherJones
Where Is Death?
He died, but He vanquished death; in Himself, He put an end to what we feared; He took it upon Himself, and He vanquished it; as a mighty hunter, He captured and slew the lion. Where is death? Seek it in Christ, for it exists no longer; but it did exist, and now it is dead.
The Greatest Adventure
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Christian, Are You Genuine?
Prayer Is the Christian’s Vital Breath
As our body cannot live without nourishment, so our soul cannot spiritually be kept alive without prayer.
HT: @enjoyingprayer
Past, Present, and Future
You try to lay your finger on the present, [but] the present is only the transition of time from the future to the past.
HT: @rayortlund
Life Is Worship 