#chris

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christian-behavior #joy #behavior

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#inspirational #life #beauty

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#christianity #compassion #islam #judaism #key

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. ↗

— William Barclay

#christ #cross #face #his #involves

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind. ↗

— Jason Behr

#christopher #christopher reeve #mind #reeve #superman

...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #beauty

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. ↗

— Bono

#away #cannot #christian #walk #you

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it. ↗

— Pat Boone

#album #christian #created #down #got