Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Fulton J. SheenStichwörter: happiness morality christianity religion church catholicism unhappiness discipline anti-religious imoral
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. SheenStichwörter: happiness philosophy christianity god religion marriage unhappy-marriage church relationships spirituality catholicism expectations lovers relationship-with-god
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
Augustine of HippoStichwörter: christianity church
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
Augustine of HippoStichwörter: church
The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is - in her own mere nature - least lovable. For the Church has not beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; he does not find, but makes her, lovely. The chrism of this terrible coronation is to be seen not in the joys of any man's marriage but in its sorrows, in the sickness and sufferings of a good wife or the faults of a bad one, in his unwearying (never paraded) care or his inexhaustible forgiveness: forgiveness, not acquiescence. As Christ sees in the flawed, proud, fanatical or lukewarm Church on earth that Bride who will one day be without spot or wrinkle, and labours to produce the latter, so the husband whose headship is Christ-like (and he is allowed no other sort) never despairs. He is a King Cophetua who after twenty years still hopes that the beggar-girl will one day learn to speak the truth and wash behind her ears.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: love marriage church husband wife christ eros
A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: motivational church leadership leaders pastors speakers john-paul john-paul-warren pastor-john-paul-warren voice-of-the-nations central-chritian-church conferences pastor-john-warren sozo sozo-life
I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: motivational church speaker john-paul-warren john-warren voice-of-the-nations conferences pastor-john-warren austin-texas
Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: church motivation leadership business leaders austin speakers sozo-life mlm
The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.
Joseph FletcherStichwörter: reason faith church spirituality
It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not reform anyone and, what's more, scarcely deter even one criminal, and, far from diminishing, the number of crimes are steadily increasing. You have to admit that. It therefore follows that society is not in the least protected, for though a harmful member is cut off automatically and exiled to some remote spot just to get rid of him, another criminal takes his place at once, and often, two, perhaps. If anything does protect society even today and indeed reforms the criminal himself and brings about his regeneration, it is, again, only the law of Christ, which reveals itself in the awareness of one's own consciousness. Only by recognizing his own guilt as a son of a Christian society, that is, of the Church, does the criminal recognize his guilt towards society itself, that is, towards the Church. The criminal today, therefore, is capable of recognizing his guilt only towards the Church, and not towards the State.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: church state the-brothers-karamazov elder miusov
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