When a man undergoes treatment from a doctor, he does not need to know the way in which the drug works on his body in order to be cured. There is a sense in which Christianity is like that. At the heart of Christianity there is a mystery, but it is not the mystery of intellectual appreciation it, the mystery of redemption.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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