#christ

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#atheist #become #gave #holidays #i

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him. ↗

— Yann Martel

#jesus #religion #life

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#cody-coleman #karen-kingsbury #life

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. ↗

— Mary Daly

#christianity #etymology #feminism #life #patriarchy

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #life #philosophy #spiritual #wisdom

All heroes are shadows of Christ ↗

— John Piper

#heroes #life

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry. ↗

— Francis Chan

#humbleness #modern-life #life

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. ↗

— Francis Chan

#life

I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will. ↗

— Marina Nemat

#jesus-christ #marina-nemat #life

Jesus' whole life was a lesson in Truth where the rubber meets the road." ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#lesson-for-life #lesson-in-life #lessons-for-man #modeling-behavior #r-alan-woods