#christ

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind. ↗

— Jason Behr

#christopher #christopher reeve #mind #reeve #superman

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#christ #his #knows #light #make

...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #beauty

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#child #christmas #morning #nothing #sadder

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. ↗

— Victor Borge

#claus #idea #once #only #people

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#irreconcilable #national #socialism

A live body is not only one which never gets old, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way, a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat the kind of voulentary death Christ Himself carried out. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#death

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#brother #christ #faith #first #god