#chris

A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#testimony #faith

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi ↗

— Michael Arditti

#religion #star-wars #faith

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #incarnation

Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#heaven #miracles #richelle #richelle-goodrich #spirit-of-christmas

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils. ↗

— John Granger

#harry-potter #lessons #morals #death

We knew, and to see her there like that with you-and armed. I think I died a thousand deaths, Ana. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-darker #love #death

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#antichristian #faith #god #religion-christianity #faith

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#faith #religion #faith

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#politics #faith