Grace

“My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Jesus of Nazareth (c. 6 BCE (BC)- c. 29 CE (AD) was a Palestine Jew who grew up in Galilee, an important center of the militant Zealots. Jesus's message was simple. He reassured his fellow Jews he did not plan to undermine their traditional religion. What was important was not strict adherence to the letter of the law but the transformation of the inner person: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." God's command was simply to love God and one another: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself." In his teachings, Jesus presented the ethical concepts-humility, charity, and brotherly love-that would form the basis of the value system of medieval Western civilization.”
― William J. Duiker

“The Bible was not given to enslave men, but to enlighten them.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“The more one examines the factors that seem to account for the extraordinary victory of Christianity, the more one is driven to search for the cause underlying them all. It is clear that the very beginning of Christianity, a vast release of energy was released, virtually unequalled in history, without it the future of the course of Christianity is unexplainable.”
― Kenneth Laterrete, Yale Historian