#ible

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#confession #creeds #god-s-word #neglect #oppression

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#equality

The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #peace #religion #respect #experience

Vampires are evil. Menacing. Scary." She glanced at Luke. "That's what it said online." She waited for Jonas to respond. He didn't. "Aren't they?" "Am I?" "Hell, yeah. Sometimes." "Are you a total delight all the time?" Luke spoke up. "Hell, no." Sera looked around for something to throw at him. There wasn't anything. "I speak from experience," he said, laughing. ↗

— J Meyers

#experience

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside. ↗

— Smith Wigglesworth

#christ #christian #god #healing-evangelist #jesus

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. ↗

— Anonymous

#bible #bible-verse #christian #faith #heaven

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#historic-christian-orthodoxy #philosophy-of-preaching #faith

Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? ↗

— Anonymous

#christianity #faith #inspirational #scripture #faith

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #among #besides #construction #distinct