A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
Christian life means sacrifice.
Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.