#christ

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop. ↗

— Sy Montgomery

#humor #pigs #sy-mongomery #humor

We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: "In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love. ↗

— Mike Timmis

#god #love #love

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God’s greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems. Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves. ↗

— Matt Patterson

#christianity #gifts #god #god-s-love #god-s-will

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and "easy" burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30 ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #jesus-christ #law #love

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of a continual critical reappropriation and reinterpretation. Up to this very day there is no alternative to it. And in light of the current challenges of a post-national constellation, we must draw sustenance now, as in the past, from this substance. Everything else is idle postmodern talk. ↗

— Jürgen Habermas

#freedom #justice #politics #postmodernism #rights

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay. ↗

— Scott Cairns

#love #love

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love #love

I'll love him til he loves me best Me best of all, Maude Clare ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love #maude-clare #rosetti #love

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. ↗