An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart