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The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#early-church #keller #money #relationships #sex

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. ↗

— Mark Galli

#heaven #money #money

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#catholic-creed #catholicism #darwinism #evolution #evolution

Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#prayer #purpose-of-prayer #temples #yoga

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. ↗

— Henry Martyn

#church #jesus #missions #theology #theology

Churchill was an articulatory genius." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#churchill-quotes #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#bible #christian #church #close #consider

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#obama #political-philosophy #politicians #politics #religion

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bloom #blooming #church #deity #faith