All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Thomas PaineTags: science christianity religion skepticism the-bible
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas PaineTags: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas PaineTags: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
James Hudson TaylorTags: christianity prayer missionary
Jesus’s use of the phrasing “a new commandment” is frequently scanted in light of its implicit ramifications. Because Jesus at the Last Supper has executed the “new covenant” with his disciples, the Great Commandment itself now acquires an unprecedented meaning. Its new meaning belongs to this sudden revelation not merely about who God is but also about what love is. Previously the Great Commandment bade us to love God and our neighbor. Now this love can be comprehended only in an incarnational situation. Its incarnate presence is the activation of profound rhizomic relations that explode from the center toward the ends of the earth. We are commanded to be incarnational in relation to one another just as God at the cross was incarnational in Christ. . . . We are no longer simply Christ’s “followers" - the pre-Easter form of relation to a master-and-teacher that is conventionally called “disciple” - but also perpetual Christ incarnators . . .
Carl RaschkeTags: love christianity faith jesus theology
Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.
John Howard YoderTags: politics christianity warfare theology
If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.
John Howard YoderTags: politics christianity warfare theology
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of
free will would be helpless without incongruity.
Tags: free-will christianity absurdity
Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay
James L. NicodemTags: inspirational christianity religion
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
Francis ChanTags: christianity god jesus wants needs pastor
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