Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. MAX STIRNER.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
The aim is not therefore to liberate some ‘essential self’ by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.
God hasn’t given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live – time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
Let us not fool ourselves – without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason – on fire.
The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge – that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman – or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.
When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.
Fear of the people is the sickness of all those who belong to authority; the people, for those in power, are the enemy.’33.
Just as man seeks justice in equality, society seeks order in anarchy.’3.