#christianity

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #religion

...pero sé que hay hombres buenos y malos, y que estos reflejan en su dios, predicando falsamente en su nombre, sus propias miserias. ↗

— Jorge Molist

#god #religion #religion

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. ↗

— Steven Runciman

#came #christianity #islam #never #peace

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#always #battle #better #better player #christianity

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#because #christianity #grotesque #more #mystical

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#enhance #every #i #i see #life

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christian #christianity #civil #civil liberty #civilization

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all. ↗

— Randall Terry

#conflict #scriptures

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#find #her #priestcraft #subjected #woman

No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because He is Love, but because we are intrinsically lovable. The Pagans obeyed this impulse unabashed; a good man was "dear to the gods" because he was good. We, being better taught, resort to subterfuge. Far be it from us to think that we have virtues for which God could love us. But then, how magnificently we have repented! As Bunyan says, describing his first and illusory conversion, "I thought there was no man in England that pleased God better than I." Beaten out of this, we next offer our own humility to God's admiration. Surely He'll like that? Or if not that, our clear-sighted and humble recognition that we still lack humility. Thus, depth beneath depth and subtlety within subtelty, there remains some lingering idea of our own, our very own attractiveness. It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Surely we must have a little--however little--native luminosity? Surely we can't be quite creatures? - The Four Loves ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #love