Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Christian life means sacrifice.
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.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.