#christianity

Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path, Carrying his sandals, and singing? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#inspirational #nature #inspirational

But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can only do it if He becomes man. Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we cannot share God's dying unless God dies; and He cannot die except by being a man. That is the sense in which He pays our debt, and suffers for us what He Himself need not suffer at all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#intelligence

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#christianity #gods #jealousy #religion #romans

We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#christianity #leadership #leadership

For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its story (even though it said it did not have one) and accepted its categories and definitions. But somewhere along the way we also began to believe that the ways in which we accessed knowledge about God or Jesus or the Spirit or Christianity were those things themselves. ↗

— Tim Keel

#church #culture #modernity #leadership

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22) ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#jesus-christ #leadership #peter #leadership

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love ↗

— Clarence Jordan

#christianity #love #love

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#god #grace #love

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one. ↗

— A.J. Jacobs

#christianity #love #unconditional-love #love

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#hope #love #religion #sin #love