The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. SheenTags: society philosophy christianity religion spirituality catholicism catholic sociology
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Fulton J. SheenTags: politics philosophy christianity god democracy spirituality catholicism catholic rights
Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle found within the Bible - from whether God approved of Rahab's lie, to where Cain got his wife. (Note to well-meaning apologists: it's not always the best idea to present a skeptic with a five-hundred-page book listing hundreds of apparent contradictions in Scripture when the skeptic didn't even know that half of them existed before you recommended it.)
Rachel Held EvansTags: christianity bible spirituality answers skeptics
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
Rachel Held EvansTags: christianity bible spirituality fundamentalism worldview
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: doubt questions christianity god spirituality
When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe — As The Soul Speaks
AainaA-RidtzTags: life love spirituality awakening ascension kabbalah
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Fulton J. SheenTags: philosophy christianity judgement spirituality criticism catholicism catholic
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. SheenTags: happiness philosophy christianity god religion marriage unhappy-marriage church relationships spirituality catholicism expectations lovers relationship-with-god
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Fulton J. SheenTags: christianity god religion spirituality catholicism jesus-christ catholic perfected-man
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fulton J. SheenTags: philosophy christianity spirituality catholicism catholic egocentrism self-perfection self-surrender
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