#christianity

The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has already ruled in our favor. 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31) No one successfully If they reject us, he accepts us. If they hate us, he loves us. If they imprison us, he sets our spirits free. If they afflict us, he refines us by the fire. If they kill us, he makes it a passage to paradise. They cannot defeat us. Christ has died. Christ has risen. We are alive in him. And in him there is no condemnation. We are forgiven, and we are righteous. 'And the righteous are bold as a lion.' (Proverbs 28:1) ↗

— John Piper

#religion #love

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#creation #temptation #temptation

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #spirituality #spiritual

If you are sure that you're going to heaven when you die, you ought to make the most of today. Why live below God's standards when He has so many wonderful things planned for you? ↗

— Jose Zayas

#heaven #lifestyle #lifestyle

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christianity #god #god-father #god-son

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#because #believe #christianity #else #everything

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. ↗

— Michael Novak

#freedom #functions #idea #individual #individual freedom

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question. ↗

— Michael Novak

#christianity #creator #empowered #gave #god

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. ↗

— Novalis

#democracy #fact #highest #men #rights

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#call #christianity #churches #communism #communist