#christianity

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ. ↗

— John Piper

#religion #religion

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You. ↗

— John Irving

#god #prayer #religion #religion

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#humility #religion #religion

Christians have their own Jihads - holy wars. Instead though of killing people physically, they kill them with their words, with their rejection, with their hatred, with their hypocrisy. All in the name of what? Religion? ↗

— ek

#hypocrisy #religion #religion

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed ↗

— Bō Jinn

#atheism #christianity-islam #god #religion #religion

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #skepticism #religion

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense. ↗

— Odin Zeus McGaffer

#christianity #insanity #religion #tolerance #tolerance-is-suicide

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#religion #religion

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#proof #religion #resurrection #religion

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#religion #religion