Redemption is too often looked at from its negative side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of being redeemed unto Himself.

And again, alas! for how many Christians there are for whom, when the word is heard, it has but little attraction, because it has never yet been shown to them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably blessed.

Isn't it true," St. Josemaria once said, "that you have seen the need to become a soul of prayer, to reach an intimacy with God that leads to divinization? Such is the Christian faith as always understood by souls of prayer." And as if to prove the "always" part, he goes on to quote St. Clement of Alexandria, who wrote around the year 203 A.D.: "A man becomes God, because he loves whatever God loves.

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.

For although the papists say something in passing about faith in Christ and the grace of the Holy Spirit, it is clear that they are much nearer to the heathen philosophers than to Christ and his apostles.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.