Charles de Lint Quotes

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.

Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

They died for me,” I say. That feels important

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work?

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

A man's fate is his own temper.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.