Quotes About Christianity

The Lord's Prayer is less than fifty words long, and six of those words are devoted to asking God not to lead us into temptation.

What you need is a gramme of soma." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.

Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.

Volt valami, amit kereszténységnek hívtak, mint már említettem (…) Az alulfogyasztás etikája és filozófiája…

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in time—events and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine.

W]hen Christianity is mainly preoccupied with events in time, it is a 'revolutionary religion,' and [...] when, under mystical influences, it stresses the Eternal Gospel, of which the historical or pseudo-historical facts recorded in Scripture are but symbols, it becomes politically 'static' and 'reactionary.

Todas las ventajas del cristianismo y del alcohol; y ninguno de sus inconvenientes.

Kin to them are the "once-born" of William James, who are incapable of philosophy, magick, or even religion, but seek instinctively a refuge from the horror of contemplating Nature, which they do not comprehend, in soothing-syrup affirmations such as those of Christian Science, Spiritualism, and all the sham 'occult' creeds, as well as the emasculated forms of so-called Christianity.

Starvation! exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

There is no reason any Christians should be dry and weary, and not feel Jesus within himself. God never intended it to this way.

In this dispensation, the Holy Ghost is the person of the Godhead through whom we can experience the presence of God the most.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven. When

If after your death a biographer or your children were to scan your canceled checks for insight into what kind of Christian you were, what conclusion would they come to? What would they reveal about your walk with Christ? Would those checks be tangible evidence of your spiritual trustworthiness?

The Bible sets no percentage goal in giving. Giving 10 percent of your gross income does not necessarily mean you have fulfilled the will of God. Ten

Abre la Biblia, empieza a leerla, haz una pausa en cada versículo y conviértelo en una oración. John Piper

Hay un elemento de la adoración y de la vida cristiana que nunca puede experimentarse en la adoración a solas ni observando la adoración de otros. Hay algunas gracias y bendiciones que nuestro Padre nos da únicamente cuando nos «congregamos» con otros creyentes como familia de Dios.

La oración es, en un sentido, la expresión de una relación continua del cristiano con el Padre.

Y sobre todo, este libro está dedicado a mi Señor y Salvador, Jesucristo. Todo esto, y de hecho toda la vida, es para ti y por ti. Después de haber hablado contigo miles de veces, no puedo esperar a verte.

Cuando nuestra percepción de la grandeza de Dios y del evangelio es vaga, nuestras vidas de oración son insignificantes. Cuanto menos pensamos en la naturaleza y el carácter de Dios, y cuanto menos recordamos lo que Jesucristo hizo por nosotros en la cruz, menos queremos orar.