Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's important, though, that there are not "four gospels." There is only one gospel: the good news of what God has done… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of… — August Tholuck Copy Share Image
“Many of us who have found ourselves to be useful in Christian service have found ourselves unable, if we’re honest, to connect… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the Old World on the eve of Columbus’s departure in 1492. For almost half a millennium Christians had been… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
“I began realizing it was okay to just sit with Him instead of always reading and journaling prayers or hustling off to… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
“...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by… — Richard C. Carrier Copy Share Image
“It is startling to reflect on just how diminished the average modern Western Christian vision of “hope,” of “inheritance,” or indeed of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“was never more than a few dozen feet away,” Cade said. Zach had to admit, that was no distance at all to… — Christopher Farnsworth Copy Share Image
...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“The shape this book has taken reflects my belief that there is need to blow the whistle on the sidelining of personal… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“From Adam to the present, the whole history of the world has been one recurring instance of personal and group apostasy after… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“We ought to preach the gospel, not as our views at all, but as the mind of God--the testimony of Jehovah concerning… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Did you know that Christians are the only ones that call God Our Father. Matthew 6:9 Jesus said This then, is how… — Steve Bertie Copy Share Image
The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I tell my christian relatives that "churchianity" is the central reason the church is not teeming with young people. The hypocrisy within… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
“Race and culture. The moralist/conservative bias is to use truth to evaluate cultures. Feeling superior to others in the impulse of self-justifying… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
“…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“THE GOSPEL CHANGES EVERYTHING The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am proud that London is a city where, the vast majority of the time, Jewish people, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, those… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
“Consequently, when Muslims today say they revere Jesus and even that they recognize Christianity as a legitimate faith, they are being disingenuous.… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to… — Timothy Michael Law Copy Share Image
The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“These are the costs Muslims must calculate when considering the gospel: losing the relationships they have built in this life, potentially losing… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
