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Great/inspirational quotes

“I never discuss anything except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.”

G.K. Chesterton
 
"All you have to do is find out what you’re not allowed to talk about and that’s what’s being falsely worshipped."

Eric Conn
 
What should our attitude toward our kindred in Christ who differ with us on this question? Above all, it should be an attitude of love and respect. Certainly, this should never be a barrier to fellowship…

Let us who rejoice in the revelation given by the risen Christ to the Apostle Paul not try to force our thinking on one another in these matters in which we may differ, but rejoicing in the many, many truths we hold in common…

At the same time, let us continue to study in love as the noble Bereans, the things on which we differ.

R. B. Shiflet (1919-2012)
The Lord’s Supper
 
“What in the long term could end up being the fatal mistake of the Republican Party and perhaps also of conservatives and conservative-leaning libertarians is a failure to keep two things distinct: constitutional conservatism, and Christianity. Another nail goes in the coffin each time someone inaccurately asserts that the United States is a ‘Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles’. While having a minor role in the founding, those principles were not its guiding force. Freedom of religion was much more decisive, including freedom from Christianity. After all, most of the early white inhabitants of this country were Christians fleeing other Christians. What most current conservatives don’t seem to realize is that honoring the Republican Party’s base of evangelical Christians doesn’t mean they should push a Christian agenda. Yes, the Republican Party benefits from widespread support among Christians, but Christians also benefit from the degree to which Republicans actually advance free-market principles and constitutional liberties -- just as do gays, Muslims and even the liberals who oppose the free market or the Constitution. Christians should further recognize that attempts to legislate Christianity or to legislate favorable treatment for Christians or Christianity are, for the most part, the Christian equivalent of Sharia Law.”

Winston Borden, infamous talk radio host, September 30, 2015
 
“It seems that most believers have difficulty in realizing and facing up to the inexorable fact that God does not hurry in His development of our Christian life. He is working from and for eternity! So many feel they are not making progress unless they are swiftly and constantly forging ahead. Now it is true that the new convert often begins and continues for some time at a fast rate. But this will not continue if there is to be healthy growth and ultimate maturity. God Himself will modify the pace. This is important to see, since in most instances when seeming declension begins to set in, it is not, as so many think, a matter of backsliding.”

Miles Stanford
The Green Letters, 1964
 
"A wise man once said nothing."

plagiarized
 
“Today we invent new methods to bring unbelievers into the churches. Unable to touch wary adults, we cast our nets for children, inventing agencies which never existed in biblical days – VGS, boys and girls clubs, yes, even Sunday School – to get them into the church where they can hear of Christ. And yet each day of our lives we brush against neighbors, against co-workers, against men and women alienated from God – and we refrain from speaking because they do not come to us on Sunday, where, within the safety of church walls, we find it convenient to talk about God.”

Lawrence O. Richards
A New Face for the Church
 
“The house church emerged in the New Testament era and continued as the most pervasive form of church structure until the time of Constantine. Church buildings then came into prominence, and house churches became a minor expression of church life. As renewal movements emerged in various periods of church history, the house church reappeared as a major structural expression of the renewed church.”

C. Kirk Hadaway
Home Group Cells and House Churches
 
"The problem with online dating is that most men are looking for down-to-earth, financially-independent women who will do things their ex-wives wouldn't do, and most women are looking for affluent sensitive new age guys who won't ask them to do what their ex-husbands wanted them to do. Can you say, 'Rat's chance in Hell?'"

Winston Borden (1954- )
 
“Why are we glad that God is Almighty? Because He is Almighty Goodness. Why are we delighted that His understanding is infinite? Because it is the understanding of Infinite Love. Why are we pleased when we hear that God is Unchangeable? Because it brings to our view a Benevolence which will NEVER VARY. And why do we rejoice that He is Just? Because we hence learn that the Energy of Love will NEVER CEASE to maintain and defend every thing that is right, and to oppose every thing that is wrong.”

Asa Shinn
Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being, 1840
 
"Way too many want to conceive sin in their heart then try to commit a late-term spiritual abortion. It doesn't work any more than living like the devil w the plan to make a deathbed confession."
~ @Tesfalcon
 
So many of us live our lives as if there is still so much time to love. I sometimes find myself pretending that death has no purchase on my world. Sometimes I write obscure scholarly articles as if I had forever. What will many of our accomplishments mean in that end-time? What will define our stay in the cosmos? I would argue that it is this: how deeply, how fully, how broadly we have loved.

With what time is left to us, we are called to settle for nothing less than a passionate love affair with God and with life, embracing God and the creation through which God shimmers, living madly in the reality that this universe is not purposeless, but that we are called toward the drama and pain of life and love lived to the fullest.

David M. Carr
The Erotic Word
 
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
~ Brendan Behan

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