#christ

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi ↗

— Michael Arditti

#religion #star-wars #faith

We knew, and to see her there like that with you-and armed. I think I died a thousand deaths, Ana. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-darker #love #death

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#antichristian #faith #god #religion-christianity #faith

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#faith #religion #faith

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#politics #faith

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. ↗

— George Weah

#brown #chicken #christmas #could #died

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #christmas #cole #gotta #holidays

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. ↗

— Karl Barth

#church #jesus #jesus christ #should

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. ↗

— Karl Barth

#back #case #christian #forgiveness #looking