Christian Quotes - Page 40

• The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

  Michael Scanlon

  Tree, Radio, Mail

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• Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.

  Jon Acuff

  Attitude, Inspiration, Heart

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• Two natures beat within my breast. The one is foul, the one is blessed. The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Hate, Blessed, Inspiration

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• The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos.

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Selfish, Inspiration, Humility

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• The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Spiritual, Civilization, Ideas

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• It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

  James Smith

  Thanksgiving, Grace, Thank God

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• Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.

  Andrew Linzey

  Eye, Animal, Sight

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• Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.

  Francis Frangipane

  Evil, Hatred, Soul

  Francis Frangipane (2013). “The Power Of Covenant Prayer”, p.114, Charisma Media

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• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Justice, Mind

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• God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Religious, Mean

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Couple, Hate, Jealous

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

  John Assaraf

  Hero, White, Community

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Rights, Principles

  "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Praise God for those of you who do homeschool. I can't emphasize enough: Do what you can to get your kids out of public school. If you can't afford to put them in a private Christian school, homeschool. Because they're being poisoned in the public schools. They're being brainwashed in the public schools, with all this secularism, with all this immorality that is being immersed into them on a daily basis.

  Rafael Cruz

  School, Kids, Praise

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government, Effort, Realizing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Exercise

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Reading

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Pay The Price, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

  John Shelby Spong

  Cities, Two, Roots

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

  John Shelby Spong

  Numbers, Looks, Christian Faith

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.

  John Shelby Spong

  Catholic, Church, Enlightenment

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Thinking, Stories

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.

  John Shelby Spong

  Struggle, Gay, Fighting

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I think if you're convinced that you're evil, and that God has had to rescue you, then the best you can be is grateful. But nobody ever loves the person they have to be perpetually grateful to. That's just not the way it works in humanity. You need to be set free. You need to be loved just as you are so that you can become all that you can be. That's the direction we have to turn the Christian message; when we do, it becomes universal.

  John Shelby Spong

  Grateful, Thinking, Evil

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in America is an anti-abortion, anti-homosexual vote. I consider that to be anti-female and anti-gay, and I don't want to be identified with a God who is anti-anything.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, America, Abortion

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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