Christ Quotations | Page 5

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year

Through Christ all things are possible. We came here today to win this game. We came here knowing that Village are a team that do pretty well on their field. However, I think we came through the flanks and ended up with two goals.

Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.