#christian

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair. ↗

— Morris L. West

#christianity #faith #prayer #faith

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. ↗

— Chely Wright

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A Christian is the highest style of man. ↗

— Edward Young

#highest #man #style

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone. ↗

— William P. Young

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. ↗

— Amy Grant

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It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#attitude #beliefs #believers #christian #consider

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. ↗

— Ken Follett

#faith #inspirational #religious #faith