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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...

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Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state...

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You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

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The position occupied by Toporóff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held...

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As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture...

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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed...

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Leslie StephenAn Agnostic's Apology and Other Essays

At every point in the story of the transmission of biblical material from the original text to today...

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The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross ...

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Lesslie NewbiginFoolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did...

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Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the huma...

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In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...

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Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may...

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Madeleine L'EngleThe Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth

Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attem...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, ...

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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get a...

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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of ...

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If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate....

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There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be percei...

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question...

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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fa...

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I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. ...

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It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard o...

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That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are bo...

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There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perce...

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Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave y...

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I have mentioned the qualitative difference between Christianity as an ethic and Christianity as an ...

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In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation wh...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, ...

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Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experie...

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and...

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In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the on...

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Here, the asking of the question who we are is in fact more dangerous than any other opposition foun...

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Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been institut...

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Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to ...

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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...

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So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h...

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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I poss...

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A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful ser...

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Martin LutherOn Christian Liberty

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...

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Martin LutherThe Sermons of Martin Luther: 7 Volumes

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the s...

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May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

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All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anes...

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The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...

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In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the ...

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If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God t...

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Truth is, we don’t get grace. But it sure can get us.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many s...

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God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with t...

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Max LucadoMax on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you...

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Max LucadoTraveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their ...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everyt...

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I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a ca...

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Look at yourself! You're a priest. You know damn well that if I were setting out to make a girl at t...

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I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can sus...

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Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation....

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One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper tr...

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I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, on...

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God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on eart...

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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hu...

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The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, a...

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Muhammad IqbalThe Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to ha...

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As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repe...

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

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N.T. WrightFollowing Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief coul...

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N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why p...

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N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FO...

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N.T. WrightJustification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive a...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his ...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

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N.T. WrightThe Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...

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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (who...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper."By loving men, my son""And how ought we to...

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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

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The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in th...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World