#christian

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

#obedience #paganism #strength #virtue

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#christian #enemy #established #i #know

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages. ↗

— John Strachan

#christians #epistle #legacy #therefore

Together we are better ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian-qoutes #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership

Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me! ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#jesus-christ #leadership #peter #purpose #leadership

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#saint #sanctification #sin #attitude

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#christian #i #jewish

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#faith #life #faith

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. ↗

— Yann Martel

#age

And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.' 'Master!' I said, shocked. 'So it is, Adso. And there are ever richer treasuries. Some time ago, in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve.' 'Really?' I exclaimed, amazed. Then, siezed by doubt, I added, 'But the Baptist was executed at a more advanced age!' 'The other skull must be in another treasury,' William said, with a grave face. I never understood when he was jesting. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#humour #age