#christianity

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#creation #musician

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #gospel

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be? ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#christianity #existentialism #nihilism #atheism

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. ↗

— Michael Novak

#freedom #functions #idea #individual #individual freedom

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question. ↗

— Michael Novak

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. ↗

— Novalis

#democracy #fact #highest #men #rights

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#big challenge #challenge #christianity #church #clearly

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#any #awakening #case #christian #christian church