#chris

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#based #choose #christianity #death #fundamentalist

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christian #especially #hand #man #other

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#because #i #i love #just #just because

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me! ↗

— Gary Patton

#business-success #christianity #judgement #business

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #christian #different #different faiths #faiths

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#love #power #faith

And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#chris #different #everybody #fun #having

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. ↗

— Burt Ward

#around #before #book #book tour #christmas