I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson It is not meeting in a good building that is wrong, but making such a building a priority and fooling ourselves into believing that we can’t … Continue reading “BUILDINGS,
CHURCH”
BUDDHA
Buddha certainly didn’t believe in God or heaven. Luis Palau Buddha rejected India’s pack of gods and never claimed to be one himself. Luis Palau
BROTHERHOOD
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. Thomas Carlyle
BROKEN HEART
Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none. The Bible, Psalm 69:20 God can do wonders with a broken heart; if we give him all of the pieces. Author unknown The poor broken-hearted sinner, going into his bedroom, bends … Continue reading “BROKEN
HEART”
BRIBES
By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down. The Bible, Proverbs 29:4
BREAKDOWN
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
BORN AGAIN
See also: Conversion; Regeneration Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to hear of being born of God. John Owen
BOOK REVIEWER
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
BODY OF CHRIST
Paul’s vision of the body of Christ is of a unity which consists in diversity, that is, a unity which is not denied by diversity, but which would be denied by uniformity, a unity which depends on its diversity functioning as such – in a word, the unity of a body, the body of Christ. … Continue reading “BODY
OF CHRIST”
BODY
See also: Body, Human The body is just a shell for the real person. Author unknown Despise the flesh, for it passes away. See to the welfare of your soul, for it never dies. Basil Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach … Continue reading “BODY”