#nit

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one—the triumph of Christianity —that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good. ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#revolution #nature

guesstimate = better than a guess but not as guaranteed as an estimate... i.e. It's simply a calculated forecast based on probability, historical trends, observations, analytical research, politics, studies of human nature and good ol' common sense (the latter 2 of which usually cause a toxic sediment when mixed, LOL)... ↗

— A.A. Bell

#nature

You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish … you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature. ↗

— Pico della Mirandola

#nature

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. ↗

— Françoise Mauriac

#divinity #god #human-nature #pain #nature

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. ↗

— Emily Post

#humanity-and-society #relationships #relationship

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humour #legal-system #parenting

there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5) ↗

— Lynne Ewing

#death

If God is for us, who can be against us? ↗

— Anonymous

#christianity #reassurance #religion #religion

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus. ↗

— Max Lucado

#religion #religion

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

#wisdom #religion