Forms rather than the flame. Andrew Murray said, When the Spirit does not work in power, it is proof that another spirit has been allowed to take its place.

'R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is...

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment,...

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the...

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion...

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.

Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just

But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from...

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the...

God is what you do, not what you believe in.

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

… anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

As Buddha said, All that we are is determined by our thoughts.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not...

... only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains - claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom...

My uncle is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.

The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.

God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21

A true leader not only demands submission; he is an example of submission by submitting to the Lord and to those in authority over him. Everything

Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "Beautiful boys."

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...

... O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Light in love is joy. Light in faith is hope. Light in compassion is mercy. Light in gratitude is contentment. Light in understanding is awareness. Light in intellect is discernment. Light in...

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.