#christian

These things I have written to you so you may know that you have eternal life. ↗

— Apostle John

#religion

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#christianity #piety #religion #religion

Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#christian #lissa #sacrifice

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#christianity #acting

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christianity #god #heart #jesus #st-augustine

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. ↗

— Francis Chan

#god #jesus #needs #pastor #wants

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #criticism #judgement #philosophy #spirituality

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#evangelism #jesus

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#christmas #religion #religion

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... ↗

— Christopher Moore

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