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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it. ↗


— J.I. Packer


#extrovert #god #introvert #life

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England. ↗


— Matthew Hale


#common #common law #england #law #part

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’ Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply ‘Dear Father. ↗


— Thomas A. Smail


#christianity #daddy #fatherhood #reverence #translation

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗


— Dag Hammarskjold


#always #becoming #child #christmas #day

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' ↗


— Tom Hardy


#around #bag #batman #black #bouncing

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. ↗


— Augustus Hare


#obedience #paganism #strength #virtue

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off. ↗


— Mariska Hargitay


#enough #hammers #i #just #like

...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God. ↗


— Harry Blamires


#english-literature #god #religion #truth #wisdom

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. ↗


— Jeffrey Hunter


#doubt #houston #i #me #next






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