#on

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ↗

— Rodney Stark

#inventions #technology #faith

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#heresy #leprosy #poverty #faith

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. ↗

— Robert Shea

#beings #both #combination #every #human

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about. ↗

— Richard Fliegel

#character-comedy #mystery #series #faith

The father will descend, The father will descend. The earth will tremble, The earth will tremble. Everybody will arise, Everybody will arise. Stretch out your hands. Stretch out your hands. ↗

— In Faith and In Wind

#faith

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia. ↗

— Robert Brady

#aspiring #cause #center #community #continues

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God. ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#christianity #conviction #god #grace #prevenient-grace

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian #church #faith #gospel #grace

Keep the faith." -- Jon Bon Jovi ↗

— Michele L. Mathews

#faith #faith

Though all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee! ↗

— The Minstrel Boy

#song-lyric #the-minstrel-boy #faith