#christianity

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

#god #islam #jesus #mohammed #muslims

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. ↗

— Ouida

#christianity #death #gay #made #pagan

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter. ↗

— Francis Chan

#church #life

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#nature #revolutionary

There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#age

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it. ↗

— James W. Sire

#experience

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show. ↗

— St. François de Sales

#humility #hypocrisy #pride #anger

Love and forgive. ↗

— Japanese proverb.

#forgiveness

We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls. ↗

— Ed Dobson

#experience

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus