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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #christ
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind. ↗
#eastern-orthodoxy #jesus-christ #kindness #monasticism #spirituality
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV) ↗
All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language. ↗
#discipline #postmodernism #proof #religious-claims #revelation
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. ↗
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. ↗
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. ↗
