#christian

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#christianity #god #poetry #art

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #art

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They envisioned the blueprint finished down to the bathroom tile and announced, "Ah, this is perfect." The problem is that "teleos" suggests that perfection is something we can build or achieve. The Hebrews looked at the same blueprint more practically. They envisioned the process of building from hard hats to hammers, from scaffolding to skylights. "Ah," the Hebrews said. "This is perfect." The Hebrews and the early Christians understood perfection as a process, not a product. Our identity as Christians depends upon life lived in relationship with God, not upon the quality of our achievements. ↗

— Kenda Creasy Dean

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Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God. ↗

— Jon Acuff

#christianity #funny #inspirational #attitude

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #christ #christian #christian nation #document

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#attempt #certain #christian #erosion #expunge

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #ask #band #been #better

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles. ↗

— Dee Snider

#born #christian #i #i was born #principles

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#buddhism #christianity #different #different religions #hinduism