#christ

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#bleak #christian-behavior #loss-of-faith #misery #no-redemption

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. ↗

— John Piper

#love

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#christian #eastern #islam #religions #stop

Closer to home, the vast majority of terrorist attaches on U.S. soil have been perpetrated by Christian terrorist groups in the past 15 years. (p. 76) ↗

— John L. Esposito Dalia Mogahed

#islam #terrorism #home

I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#because #christianity #hearings #homeland #homeland security

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#air #always #angels #breaks #burden

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#divinity #exaltation #humanity #jesus #jesus christ

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic. ↗

— Chris Brown

#amazing #appeal #artist #bring #christmas

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. ↗

— James Brown

#another #appreciative #christ #had #i

Allow me to sum it up this way; if the Church allows this secular humanistic "social gospel" into its hallowed halls, then it is putting its very existence at risk, for it will subject itself to the government. And the Church must be subject to Christ---not the government. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith