#ian

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#jesus-christ #life #works #life

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#science

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#science

Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#jurassic-park #life

It's not only who you know but who knows you. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#career #life #life

Speaking success into existence is the prerequisite for achieveing any goal in life. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#success #life

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian. ↗

— Yann Martel

#christianity #life-of-pi #religion #life

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular for His great Sermon on the Mount, but also merits unpopularity for what He said about His Divinity on the one hand, and divorce, judgment, and hell on the other. This sentimental Christ is patched together with a thousand commonplaces, sustained sometimes by academic etymologists who cannot see the Word for the letters, or distorted beyond personal recognition by a dogmatic principle that anything which is Divine must necessarily be a myth. Without His Cross, He becomes nothing more than a sultry precursor of democracy or a humanitarian who taught brotherhood without tears. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#democracy #jesus #secular-humanism #sermon-on-the-mount #the-cross