#theology

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? ↗

— Jake Jesser

#crucifixion #death #mythology #perspective #religion

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life. ↗

— Stig Åvall Severinsen

#breatheology #changes #thought #change

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God ↗

— Frank J. Sheed

#theology #love

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian. ↗

— Michael Joseph Brown

#religion #theology #inspirational

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. ↗

— George MacDonald

#humanity #inspirational #religion #theology #wonder

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#answer #common #convictions #creed #differences

With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shake The darkness out of me, and rend the mesh The spider-devils spin out of the flesh- Eager to net the soul before it wake, That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake. George MacDonald ↗

— George MacDonald

#religious #sin #temptation #the-fall #theology

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #heart #inspirational #jesus-shock #love

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#christianity #god #inspirational #prayer #religion

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#break #break up #crumbles #cults #direct