#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

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christianity #fantasy #fiction #inspirational #m-j-chrisman

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #cross #excess-love #god

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #inspirational #science #theology #thought-provoking

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated. ↗

— John Howard Yoder

#politics #theology #warfare #theology

Conformity is deformity ↗

— Sharon Desruisseaux

#cleopatra #egypt #historical #historical-fiction #isis

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#theology #imagination

My greatest fear is time wasted—a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christian #inspirational #micah #remnant #the