#christianity

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves. ↗

— David Platt

#dreams

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#faith #god #love #self #faith

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#humor #religion #dreams

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #knowledge #education

He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#education #inequality #social-issues #education

Friendship is not by force but by choice. You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. ↗

— Stella Oladiran

#christianity #dating #family #life #love

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#contentment #joy #trials #experience

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#christianity #culture #environment #industry #nature

Christianity means a lot more than church membership. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#church #lot #means #membership #more

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#christianity #church #devil #god #god almighty