Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always.
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My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: christianity grace prayer
A Christian jerk is still a jerk.
Kevin RooseTags: christianity
The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately. The converts had known a first coming. And then? And then! That was the trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as universal and as durable — as time.
Charles WilliamsTags: christianity jesus-christ the-church second-coming
To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.
David A. ServantTags: christianity god atheism blind-faith
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.
John Henry NewmanTags: christianity god self-knowledge the-church god-s-grace heretics infidels
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.
Criss JamiTags: life truth experience christianity god scripture bible salvation jesus theology accuracy apologetics christ biography prophet evangelism vastness vast
The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen; to pray is to see and breathe.
Gangai VictorTags: christianity bible prayer worship holy-spirit
От само себе си се разбира, че развитието на еротизма с нищо не е външно за областта на религията, но тъкмо християнството, противопоставяйки се на еротизма, е осъдило повечето религии. В някакъв смисъл християнската религия е може би най-нерелигиозната.
Georges BatailleTags: christianity religion erotism
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
Timothy J. KellerTags: christianity faith heart motivation
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