#christianity

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#christ #christianity #dejan-stojanovic #jesus-christ #literature

Your mind was made to know and love God. ↗

— John Piper

#god #love #mind #purpose #life

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#church #love #persecution #pilgrim #love

We can but have Faith, for though we can not see beyond our own noses, God always knows what lay ahead. ↗

— Caleb Peiffer

#faith #religion #death

So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also! ↗

— Martin Luther

#death

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#christianity #death #earth #funeral #poem

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#christianity #prologue #death

We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it...But unfortunetly we now need God's help in order to do something which God, in his own nature, never does at all - to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#love

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bill-of-rights #christianity #constitution #politics #religion