154 Quotes About Religion-christianity

Dissenters in a society are as dangerous as criminals to the political establishment.

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by the truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example, they do not believe in nothing. It is as Chesterton said, they will believe in anything, usually the nearest and biggest thing, the gross power of the state to solve their problems.

Knowing God intimately is not the route to something greater, but is itself the greater thing. You were made to know Him and understand who you therefore are. You are His child.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it; we are careless, if not actually callous about submitting to it.

If you would be like Christ, give much, give often, give freely, to the vile and poor, the thankless and the undeserving. Christ is glorious and happy and so will you be...Remember his own word, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The proper relation of the Church to the world cannot be deduced from natural law or rational law or from universal human rights, but only from the gospel of Jesus Christ.

A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the cost of what it will cost you.

A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the pain of what it will cost you