#christian

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi ↗

— Michael Arditti

#religion #star-wars #faith

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #incarnation

‎Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#church #discipleship #faith #jesus #religion

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now. ↗

— Debby Boone

#christian #christian music #core #doing #exclusively

Closer to home, the vast majority of terrorist attaches on U.S. soil have been perpetrated by Christian terrorist groups in the past 15 years. (p. 76) ↗

— John L. Esposito Dalia Mogahed

#islam #terrorism #home

Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#believe #christianity #faith #god #trust

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#black #called #christian #claim #dear

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen