#eol

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. ↗

— Owen Jones

#inequality #politics #ideology

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila ↗

— Mark Salzman

#dreams

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#church

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#god #theology #anarchy

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#god #help #prayer #theology #faith

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#theology

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. ↗

— Karl Barth

#study #theology

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

#theology

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#theology