Abu Bakr Quotes

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I am a Christian.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.

Allah hates disbelievers.

The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I'm a Christian.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

I am evangelical and believe much in God.

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.