God's child in Christ adopted -- Christ my all -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit that blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father? -- Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee -- Eternal Thou and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life! -- let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! On my front I show Their mighty Master's seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe. Is that a death-bed where a Christian lies? Yes, but not his -- 'tis Death itself there dies.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;
No fear lest he ... JOHN KEBLE It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee. GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol... MATTHEW HAMMOND Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and ... HUGO CHAVEZ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Many people have... CHARLES GORE So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h... MARTIN LUTHER Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosper... DAVID PLATT The primitive Christians were accustomed to speak, in a language which was older than Christianity, ... C. HAROLD DODD The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to... ARTHUR MIDDLETON As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like d... T. D. JAKES Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.) Eternal life is not... EMIL BRUNNER A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ... THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ... IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH To those who don't know Christ, life on earth is all there is, and so it is normal for them to striv... TELEMA W. OKOBI Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For th... JOHN BAILLIE I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian; you ca... FRANKLIN GRAHAM I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. LOU HOLTZ God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The At... DIETER F. UCHTDORF For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. BIBLE I don't know about you but my greatest desire, passion and dream in life is to be like my earthly fa... ETC WANYANWU Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's all I ... BENNY HINN Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ... ST. AUGUSTINE I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm g... JAMES DOBSON Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesu... MIKE PENCE I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world... MEHMET ALI AğCA Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, / Yet for ... BIBLE The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel... DANIEL ORTEGA Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:... JOHN OF DAMASCUS All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith ... FRANKLIN GRAHAM I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose aga... SHERRI SHEPHERD I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in va... BIBLE If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce o... YANN MARTEL Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconcili... JOHN WESLEY Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconci... JOHN WESLEY Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria... WILLIAM LAW My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others th... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greate... RUDYARD KIPLING It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and ackno... JOHN CALVIN Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le... ST. AUGUSTINE Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, / To the saints and ... BIBLE Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurr... BIBLE If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only C... PETER KREEFT Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brot... ROBERT MACCOLL ADAMS I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. JERRY B. JENKINS In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pi... C.S. LEWIS In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent an... C.S. LEWIS There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ... IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th... BEN ZOBRIST There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of C... JERRY BRIDGES The great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that the latter acknowledges ... ANDREW MURRAY I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life f... MONICA JOHNSON I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophe... DIETER F. UCHTDORF My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, co... BILLY GRAHAM I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed wit... JANE CLAYSON The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I wo... JAN HUS Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Is a mediator between the eternal spiri... P. T. FORSYTH I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His lov... JAMES E. FAUST A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The... WILLIAM BARCLAY To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ... THOMAS MERTON
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... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
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... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Those holies of themselves a shape
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her daughter, that her daughter's d... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ancestral voices prophesying war. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if wit... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the ca... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of Lov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE