#chris

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#christian-living #christianity #political #politics #social-change

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#being #blessing #christ #collectively #god

Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for eating. When the Conquistadors arrived and found dog on the menu, they were of the same opinion as Mademoiselle, that this was evidence of the worst form of barbarism. They, the Spaniards, used dogs as befits civilized and Christian men - to hunt down fugitive Indians and tear them to pieces. ↗

— Medlar Lucan

#christians #conquistador #dogs #spaniards #men

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#classics #grew #i #kind #mom

I gave my life to Christ about 1991. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#christ #gave #i #life #my life

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#christian #claimed #i #know #me

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Colossians

#christian #freedom #god #love #together

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey… ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#marriage #freedom

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it. ↗

— James W. Sire

#experience

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth