All Quotes By Tag: Christianity

“I don’t want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don’t take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day.”

“All our opinions are false and don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. We live ,we die. We as individuals don’t matter in this world ,we will be a memory if anyone does remember us. We will be lucky.But soon , our memory will die with them and maybe someone will utter our name in passing in this age of technology ,as a footnote to something that grabbed more of their attention. Ultimately in this world our lives do not matter. So why do we feel we are in a one man play? Why do we want to accomplish so much just to be bellowed as heroes or heroines, to be adored or thought highly of by other people who do not even have favorable opinions of themselves? You see the truth is that the trace we leave In this world do not matter in this world, the track we leave in this world is what matters in the afterlife and it will be mirror in the memory of your future. Everything we do today is either for our own comforts or to avoid discomfort we are living in a perpetual state of pleasing ourselves , self gratification and being busy bodies for the momentarily exhalation of relief that will almost always follow up with a crisis. No one will have a continuous state of bliss as the pendulum swings up it will eventually come down before it comes back up again, yet we act surprised and devastated. This life is a perpetual test to try to develop and polish your outlook and inner life so you may be the lucky ones to develop the acuteness to see this world for what it is, and not lose that vision. An illusion of forms presenting the beauty and ugliness of our souls to us on a platter and tempting us to forget we are mortal. You don’t finish school when you graduate with that degree. You finish school when you die.”

“We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.”

“We have been given this precious human incarnation in which each and every one of us is a candidate for enlightenment.”

“It is Love that sustains me. Love is my Source. The apprehension of God in my human experience is Love. When I experience Love, I feel expanded, energetically and mystically.”

“Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain.”

“The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way – the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.”

“في الماضي، كان العلم يُهدي إلى الله. فكانوا يقولون بصوابٍ: قليل من العلم يُبعد عن الله، وكثير منه يردّ إليه”

“This is an assignment I’m always happy to be on, helping a hurting world through the power of prayer.”

“حين اتلو الصلاة قبل الطعام، احترس أن أقول: “يارب بارك هذا الطعام الذي سنتناوله واعطِ الجائعين خبزا.” أخشى أن يجيبني الله: “عليك أنت أن تعطيهم.” فأقول دائما: “علمنا أن نتقاسم.”

“The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.”

“Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross.”- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)”

“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.”

“And for the sake of humility–a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we’re capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.”

“Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer’s massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle found within the Bible – from whether God approved of Rahab’s lie, to where Cain got his wife. (Note to well-meaning apologists: it’s not always the best idea to present a skeptic with a five-hundred-page book listing hundreds of apparent contradictions in Scripture when the skeptic didn’t even know that half of them existed before you recommended it.)”