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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin Jr.

#christianity #religion #religion-and-children #yale #religion

Connection is life; disconnection, death. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #loneliness #love #death

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#love #margaret #selina #death

Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They want God to take them as they are and let them stay that way. They want Him to take away their love of riches, but not their riches—to purge them of the disgust of sin, but not of the pleasure of sin. Some of them equate goodness with indifference to evil and think that God is good if He is broad-minded or tolerant about evil. Like the onlookers at the Cross, they want God on their terms, not His, and they shout, “Come down, and we will believe.” But the things they ask are the marks of a false religion: it promises salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifice, Christ without his nails. God is a consuming fire; our desire for God must include a willingness to have the chaff burned from our intellect and the weeds of our sinful will purged. The very fear souls have of surrendering themselves to the Lord with a cross is an evidence of their instinctive belief in His Holiness. Because God is fire, we cannot escape Him, whether we draw near for conversion or flee from aversion: in either case, He affects us. If we accept His love, its fires will illumine and warm us; if we reject Him, they will still burn on in us in frustration and remorse. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#sanctification #change

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

#integrity #lying #strength

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#death #dream #killing #luthiel #change

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#social-world #storytelling #writers #art

Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#solving-problems #religion

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. ↗

— John Green

#christianity #islam #religion #suffering #universal

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#religion #religion