#christian

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them. ↗

— Helmut Thielicke

#love

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #imagination #art

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. ↗

— John Piper

#religion #age

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. ↗

— Vance Packard

#computer #incomprehensible #notion #possibility #redemption

No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away. ↗

— Gregory Boyle

#compassion #god #kinship #margins #solidarity

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#democratic #politics #republican #system #imagination

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#aging #christian #god #inspirational #jesus

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. ↗

— James Gavin

#atheist #christ #christian #fair #gavin

Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. ↗

— Linda Leigh Hargrove

#fiction #imagination

Since Thami had the Arab's utter incomprehension of the meaning of pornography, he imagined that the police had placed the ban on obscene films because these infringed upon Christian doctrine at certain specific points, in which case any Christian might be expected to show interest, if only to disapprove. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#pornography #imagination