#christ

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #creating #fell #god #him

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#christian #easy #hate #how #i

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#christian #could #encountered #hear #i

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #converted #ever #i #poor

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#below #character #christianity #cradle #death

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #coming #forward #jesus #jesus christ

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#communism #religion #religion

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#back #been #blues #born #bureau