#christian

Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning. ↗

— Richard A. Young

#christianity #creation #dominion #life #vegetarianism

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service. ↗

— George Müller

#life

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#christian #every #faith #golden #golden rule

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#enjoy #enjoying #i #suffer #very

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. ↗

— William Blake

#christianity #conquer #forgiveness #glory

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless. ↗

— James Dobson

#care #christian #christian life #friend #friendless

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values. ↗

— James Dobson

#beginning #greatly #influenced #judeo-christian #primarily

Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#christianity #religion #religion

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy. ↗

— Ramsay MacMullen

#history #history-of-religion #religion

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It’s an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the “Almighty-Other”, without the “Great Other” of transcendence. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#difference #god #identity #love #otherness