#chris

Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ. ↗

— Seraphim Rose

#christ #nihilism #orthodoxy #religion #age

The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only through Biblical revelation from the One who knows how the world really works because He made it and actively sustains it that anyone can come to a competent understanding of the world. ↗

— Gary North

#christianity #economics #reconstructionism #money

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#belief #brought #christians #faith #lost

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. ↗

— Wendy Cope

#bloody #christmas #cup #earth #goodwill

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#alaska #blessings #make #occasion #our

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#ancient #bodies #born #christmas #christmas eve

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon. ↗

— Carrie Donovan

#afternoon #christy #declared #dying #entertainment

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. ↗

— Ernst Bloch

#christianity #fundementalism #marx #religion #age

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God. ↗

— Henry Martyn

#servant-of-god #business