The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.
Marcus J. BorgTags: life christianity god spirituality relationship
When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.
Jefferson BethkeTags: christianity jesus jesus-christ dangerous radical
Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.
Craig GroeschelTags: christianity god boldness obey oposition
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
C.S. LewisTags: inspirational christianity
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
Stanley HauerwasTags: christianity church fellowship kingdom-of-god sunday-morning communion-of-saints
Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as - and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be - lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of value or reason or even to go on living, before they were 'saved.
David Foster WallaceTags: christianity religion
Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument. Words are tokens of the will. If something stronger than language were available then we would use it. But by the same token, words in defense of Christianity miss the mark as well: they are a translation into the dispassionate language of argument of something that resides far deeper in the caverns of volition, of commitment. Perhaps this is why Saint Francis, so the story goes, instructed his followers to "preach the Gospel always, using words if necessary." It is not simply and straightforwardly wrong to make arguments in the defense of the Christian faith, but it is a relatively superficial activity: it fails to address the core issues.
Alan JacobsTags: words christianity argument christian-apologetics semantics saint-francis stronger-than-language
No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.
James E. TalmageTags: christianity religion
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C.S. LewisTags: christianity religion evidence apologetics lewis clive cs staples
I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.
Tony CampoloTags: morality manners christianity starvation the-church malnutrition
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