#christianity

The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn't make its declaration less true. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

#gospel #love #orthodoxy #love

I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not. Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be! And it has nothing to do with love. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#charity #christianity #happiness #hate #hatred

Love is seeking the good and being the good. ↗

— Erica Goros

#christianity #inspiration #inspirational #life #meaning-of-life

the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provided with government housing. The face of our Creator can’t be seen on a welfare voucher. What the poor need is not another government program; what they need is for Christians like me to honor our savior. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#christian-behavior #christianity #poverty #art

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#god #life #relationship #spirituality #change

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #religion #religion

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature #nature

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christian-religion #christianity #god-father #god-son

Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion-christianity #social-psychology #religion

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#bible #christianity #religion #love