Henry Ward Beecher: There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man…
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going and sitting there should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
In today’s wordsEvery Christian church should have such an atmosphere that a person who comes and sits there catches the contagion of heaven and carries a fire home to kindle the altar he came from.
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- Our job is to love people...God's job is to transform them. In between our loving them and God transforming them, we need to be a light (example/living epistle) for them.
- When you elevate your trust in God, you will alleviate yourself of worry.
- Repentance is the KEY to phenomenal FAITH.
- We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
- For here possibilities, not finished facts, are the realities with which we have actively to deal; and to quote my friend William Salter, of the Philadelphia Ethical Society, "as the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists."