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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

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On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done the devilʼs work for him. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

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The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#democratic #politics #republican #system #imagination

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion...The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and music and art and philosophy and education and poetry and politics and theology and even--heaven help us--Biblical studies, a worldview that will mount the historically-rooted Christian challenge to both modernity and postmodernity, leading the way...with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and true wisdom. I believe if we face the question, "if not now, then when?" if we are grasped by this vision we may also hear the question, "if not us, then who?" And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is? ↗

— N.T. Wright

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A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#testimony #faith

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. ↗

— Bono

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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. ↗

— Sid Waddell

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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population! ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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