#christ

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#education #learning #religion #theology #education

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. ↗

— Steve Israel

#any #attempts #ban #christmas #claus

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#air travel #california #christmas #each #far

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#christmas #cynical #edge #feel #i

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about "beliefs" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world. ↗

— Rob Bell

#faith #inspirtational #religion #theology #anger

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went up her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis of grace? ↗

— Penelope Marzec

#disability #inspirational #lawyer #police-officer #romance

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#again #blessing #christopher #christopher reeve #courageous

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children. ↗

— John Waters

#the-man-who-loved-children #anger

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#church #dallas-willard #inspirational #religion #age

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. ↗

— James McAvoy

#always #boy #christmas #did #ever