Christmas lights

すべての人を照らすそのまことの光が世に来ようとしていた。
ヨハネの福音書第１章９

The true light that gives light to all people has come into the world
John chapter 1, verse 9

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

cause and effect...

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:13

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
John Owen

something to write in my bible: This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.

summing it up...

You sum up the whole of New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
J.I. Packer, Knowing God