The Educator · @CaptainJDavis
29th Jun 2014 from TwitLonger
Christian Religion: #Truth
To follow our own will, our passions, and our senses, is that which would make us miserable in this world. It is for this reason, and that we may have a remedy for all our troubles, that Christianity obliges us to submit our will, our passions, and our desires to the will and law of God.
An invincible proof of the truth of the Christian religion, that Jesus Christ foretold exactly whatever should happen to Himself and the Church, and that His doctrine should prevail over the powers of the world, and against the very corruptions and inclinations thereof, not by force, but by suffering, and by the Word and Spirit of God alone.
The Christian religion consists in performing worthily the duties we owe to God, our neighbor, and ourselves.
One of the greatest proofs of religion is this, that no man ever found a perfect certainty on the side of irreligion.
Christian religion is plain and easy to be understood by all such as are desirous to understand it.
The most unlearned can believe and embrace what God has made known to us, through the grace of God; and without this, the most learned know nothing to any good purpose, and are as far from the kingdom of heaven as the most ignorant.
A Christian, who leads a Christian life, knows enough to carry him to heaven and happiness; and a good scholar, who leads a useless or a wicked life, is in the very way to hell.
The true wisdom is to know, to fear, to love, and obey God; this was the wisdom of all such as are now in Paradise. Study you to be saved, and, when you die, you will find that you were wiser than those that have read and written many books, and were not wise for themselves. Envy not the pains, nor the learning, of those that are thus foolish.
The end of Christianity is, to perfect the human nature by a participation of the Divine.