#christian

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #psychology #religious #resurrection #inspirational

She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you. ↗

— Jillian Hart

#love #love-inspired #change

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are being shaped into the image of Jesus. When you generously give, your heart is being remade into the image of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

#christ #christianity #giving #god #image-of-jesus

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others. ↗

— John Piper

#sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ #love

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or, to put it another way, did the empire surrender to Christianity, or did Christianity prostitute itself to the empire? It is characteristic of the complexities of early Christian history that we cannot give a definite answer to this question. ↗

— Paul Johnson

#history #marriage

I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!' 'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those! ↗

— Mark Gatiss

#humor #humor

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disciple #love #missionary #tragic #love

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ↗

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

#inspirational-quotes #business

We can but have Faith, for though we can not see beyond our own noses, God always knows what lay ahead. ↗

— Caleb Peiffer

#faith #religion #death

The devil is busy trying to take from us what we get from God, and so God bids us hold fast. ↗

— C. Nuzum

#business