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Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

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It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#christianity #feminism #mary #women #religion

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#love #love

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#brotherly-love #christian-behavior #love

I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey ↗

— E.L. James

#e-l-james #fifty-shades-of-grey #grey #love #love

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #love #sensuality #spirituality #love

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#good-and-evil #love #life

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