#christian

He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world—there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he’d been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name. But more than anything, he wanted to— ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#christian #sherry-thomas #venetia #beauty

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#god #grief #jesus #religion #sorrow

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #feelings #god #love #attitude

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

#christian #democrats #feel #like #made

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#christian faith #communication #factor #faith #generic

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#charity #christianity #friendship #happiness #hate

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God. ↗

— Hayley DiMarco

#behavior #christianity #god #attitude

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ↗

— George Orwell

#advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. ↗

— Ouida

#christianity #death #gay #made #pagan