#amen

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#amen #dear #god #lord #me

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #brave-new-world #history #martyrs #old-testament

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#pride #religion #love

Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#god #love

Lui le offrì allora la camelia che portava all'occhiello. Lei la rifiutò: "E' un fiore che impegna". ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#fiore #proposta #love

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#sacraments #marriage

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537. ↗

— Adam Nicolson

#history #marriage #sacrament #marriage

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#parliament #love

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q. ↗

— Jim Adam

#christianity #inspirational #jesus #old-testament #inspirational

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like. ↗

— Alan M. Dershowitz

#freedom #gun-rights #guns #justice #politics