Gerald Vann famous quotes

Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life
-- Gerald Vann

#Christian #Worship #Christian Life

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
-- Gerald Vann

#Prayer #Mean #Thinking

If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.
-- Gerald Vann

#Faith #Pain #Inspiration

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
-- Gerald Vann

#Long #Church #Scandal

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
-- Gerald Vann

#Depressing #Christianity #Aggressive

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
-- Gerald Vann

#Responsibility #Helping

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.
-- Gerald Vann

#Love #Believe #People

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
-- Gerald Vann

#Heart #Blades #Grass

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.

…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.