#christianity

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#building #christ #christian #christianity #do-unto-others

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or, to put it another way, did the empire surrender to Christianity, or did Christianity prostitute itself to the empire? It is characteristic of the complexities of early Christian history that we cannot give a definite answer to this question. ↗

— Paul Johnson

#history #marriage

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #love #neighbor #sacrifice

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#darkness #withces #men

For således elskede Gud verden, at han gav sin enbårne søn, for at enhver som strækker ud hos ham, ikke skal fortabes, men have evigt liv (John G. Paton's oversættelse) ↗

— Max Lucado

#men

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christianity #good-and-evil #jesus #jesus-christ #laws

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ↗

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

#early-christianity #patristics #saints #men

Let God take your hurt, your pain, and turn it into something miraculous! ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#inspirational #inspirational

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. ↗

— Robert E. Webber

#god #inspirational #jesus #worship #inspirational

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart. ↗

— Robert Colman

#god #inspirational-quotes #jesus #worship #inspirational