Category: death to self

If we have never been hurt by a statement of Jesus, it is questionable whether we have ever really heard him speak. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward …

Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.― Augustine of Hippo, City of God For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do …

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires …

There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition a …

The cross of Christ is God’s last and endless word. There the prince of this world is judged, there sin is killed, and pride is done to death, there …

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement; he is a rebel who must lay down his arms…. This process of surrender—this movement full speed astern—is …

Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Do you not know that all of us who have …