#christianity

Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy. ↗

— Melissa Bradley

#inspirational #religious #running-the-race #inspirational

Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame. Even as Ken prayed for my soul, he did it in a way that welcomed me into the church rather than made me a scapegoat of Christian fear or an example of what not to become," (p 14). ↗

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#homosexuality #change

Do you know why I believe in the Lord Jesus and what He says? Because He has proved to me that He has my best interests at heart. What could He do that He did not do? He already gave His life for us (Romans 5:8-10; 8:32) ↗

— David Jeremiah

#inspirational-quotes #faith

God giveth and taketh with great efficacy. ↗

— Travis Atherstone

#god #religion #religion

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#crucifixion #devotional #religion #religion

I believe that Christianity isn't a religion. ↗

— Stephanie Yu

#religion

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these other people?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs. ↗

— Anonymous

#jesus-christ #religion #love

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#help #judgment #love #religion #service

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #love

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #love