Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead and he shouldn’t have done it. He’s thrown everything off balance. If he did what he said, then it’s nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if he didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the [...]
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Flannery O’Connor
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Belief, Death, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Resurrection on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blaise Pascal
Posted in Belief, Exclusivity, Experience, God, Gospel, Heart, Image of God, Jesus Christ, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus (Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist [1623-1662])
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Posted in Belief, Incarnation, Jesus Christ on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated. (Kenneth Scott Latourette, historian of Christianity at Yale University)
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Rationalism, Reason, Skepticism on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said [...]
Thomas Howard
Posted in Belief, Christian Life, Church, Discipleship, Jesus Christ, Sacraments on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the simple act of taking bread, and of blessing, breaking and giving it to His disciples, the Lord gathered up all the mystery of the gospel: that the Word must become flesh, and that this flesh must be broken for the life of the world…
At that supper table with His friends, Jesus revealed Himself [...]
Brennan Manning
Posted in Belief, Sin on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss. (Brennan Manning, the Ragamuffin Gospel. p. 136).
Christopher Moore
Posted in Belief, Discipleship, Faith, Identity, Imagination, Jesus Christ on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You two [Jesus and his friend, Biff] are the ninnies here. You both rail on them [the 12 apostles] about their intelligence, when that doesn’t have anything to do with why they’re here [following Jesus]. Have either one of you heard them preach? I [Mary Magdalene] have. Peter can heal the sick now. I’ve seen [...]
John Calvin
Posted in Autonomy, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Individualism, Knowledge, Sin on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he first has looked upon God’s face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. (John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion I:1:2 [page 37 of the Battles Translation]. Calvin was a 16th c. protestant reformer, pastor and theologian).
Lauren Winner
Posted in Belief, Faith, God, Imagination, Love, Searching, Spirituality, Worship on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Latin credo means literally, ‘I give my heart.’ The word believe is a problematic one today, in part because it has gradually changed its meaning from being a language of certainty so deep that I could give my heart to it, to the language of uncertainty so shallow that only the ‘credulous’ would rely [...]
Arthur C. Clarke
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Humanity, Image of God, Individualism, Mankind, Rationalism, Reason, Searching, Skepticism, Spirituality, Westernism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. (Arthur C. Clarke – Atheist and British science fiction author, most famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey. [1917-2008])
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