#chris

I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and villages throughout the country. It meant feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, caring for the young, but it also meant healing the wounded and forgiving the unforgivable. I knew I had to be committed to preaching a transforming message to the people of Rwanda. Jesus did not die for people to be religious. He died so that we might believe in Him and be transformed. I'm engaged in a purpose and strategy that Jesus came to Earth for. My life is set for that divine purpose in Jesus Christ. I was called to that--proclaiming the message of transformation through Jesus Christ. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#genocide #jesus #jesus-christ #reconciliation #rwanda

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#come #destroy #did #died #lost

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink. ↗

— Reggie White

#christians #hard #hard time #having #i

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law. ↗

— William Tyndale

#christ #consider #described #god #his

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#excellence #gift #lies #rather #than

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#christians #definition #destruction #entire #free

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. ↗

— Noah Webster

#christian #christian religion #citizens #correct #desire

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. ↗

— Noah Webster

#christian religion #corruptions #ecclesiastical #establishments #europe

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

#christianity #language #food

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#christianity #inspirational #justice #food