But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can only do it if He becomes man. Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we cannot share God's dying unless God dies; and He cannot die except by being a man. That is the sense in which He pays our debt, and suffers for us what He Himself need not suffer at all.
C.S. LewisTags: christianity
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Henry MartynTags: christianity church jesus theology missions
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
Philip PullmanTags: truth power justice christianity god religion atheism mistake skepticism agnosticism
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
Armistead MaupinTags: equality family christianity gay bigotry coming-out
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
Mary DalyTags: life christianity carpe-diem religion feminism sin patriarchy etymology
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
Alice CooperTags: christianity rock-n-roll
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.
W.E. WoodwardTags: christianity military militarism
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
William BarclayTags: misattributed christianity jesus quote
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
Kathy AckerTags: christianity heaven hell indian expected hatuey
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
Brennan ManningTags: christianity courage faith jesus resurrection radical
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