#christ

Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry. ↗

— George Wither

#humor #merriment #wassail #humor

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#christianity #comedy #humor #humour #rationality

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#orthodoxy #imagination

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#love #love

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. ↗

— Beth Moore

#satan

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #quote #deception

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bill-of-rights #christianity #constitution #politics #religion

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him ↗

— John Piper

#theology #christianity

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #pride #christianity

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. ↗

— Donald Miller

#christianity