#chris

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#christ #death #find #form #freedom

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bondage #christian #civilization #debt #deprived

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #christian #climate #climate change #coalition

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#germany #natives #same #title

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#man #needs #raw #reasons #teaching

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to despair; For I accept thee so, For fair. [excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"] ↗

— William Baldwin

#the-church #art

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#catalogues #christmas #give #let us #me

I don't even call myself a Christian. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#christian #even #i #myself

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#christianity #code #i #i do #moral