#christian

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature #nature

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

#christianity #popular-culture #religion #religion

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him. ↗

— Anonymous

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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #religion

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. ↗

— Martin Luther

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When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#religion #religion

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity. ↗

— Rob Bell

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