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Great/inspirational quotes

The Song of Solomon is an erotic love poem. In some places, the meaning of the poet can hardly be missed, and for prudish Christians, the clarity of the point is all the more embarrassing. But embarrassment is not an appropriate response for Christians; all of Scripture is inspired, and is profitable for instruction.

It is legitimate to read and learn from the erotica of the Song. This erotica is clearly and unambiguously sexual. Put another way, the Bible contains literary passages, which we may read, in which another couple is engaged in passionate lovemaking.

Douglas Wilson
Reforming Marriage
 
"The church continues to push this idea of one man, one woman. One of the greatest values in a system like polygyny is that it allows us to control the society in a manner that it divine."

Trenyaae Bondojia, as quoted by Patricia Dixon-Spear
We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, 2009
 
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. – G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 
Patricia Dixon-Spear, quoting 'Mya' in We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves:

I was clearer on the mercy and benefitis and the purity of polygamy . . . But the society we live in says that it doesn't matter how many relationships you have, what gets the attention is when you try to legitimize them. It is all right for your husband and boyfriend to have this one or that one [on the side], and the women usually go along with it as long as you don't "bring it in my face."​
 
The consciousness of God is my most precious possession. It supports me in my trials and tempers my success. It changes life from a desperate gamble to an exultant assurance that I cannot miss His goal. I would not trade it for all the mines of golden California. All the pearls of the Pacific could not purchase it from me.

A. E. Knoch (1874-1965)
The Unveiling of Jesus Christ
 
Old notions of every kind, and most of all religious notions, are hard to dislodge from the mind. It does not matter how unscriptural they may be, or illogical, or even absurd, if only they have been believed for generations, if only they have been entertained by good and learned men, if only they have found a way into the current versions of the Bible, they are reverently received and become ‘fixed’ ideas. The original Scriptures were divinely inspired, and therefore all of their statements on a given subject are in full accord one with another; but the translations of the Scriptures, like the ecclesiastical systems which produced them, were not inspired, and the peculiar reverence frequently given to their opinions is not grounded in reasons, and would often be amusing if it were not sad. Traditions of good men and current versions (even though ‘authorized’) are broken reeds to lean upon, and those relying thereon are certain to experience disappointment.

Vladimir Gelesnoff
(1877-1921)
 
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on my life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

—Charles Swindoll
 
I like to substitute the word altitude for attitude.
Our attitude does determine our emotional altitude.
 
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain, possibly
 
“Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.” [One can choose what to do, but not what to want.]

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860
 
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

Anne Lamott
 
“He, who is without oil, shall throw the first rod” Compressions 8.7:1
Steve Peterson
 
One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind (Romans 14:5).

To have faith without fear, you sooner or later have to come to terms with what you believe. Not with what a church says you should believe or what a creed says somebody else believed, but with what you actually do believe. Start here. It may not be much, but it’s honest. What’s the gain, anyway, of saying you believe something if you don’t? Or trying to believe something if you don’t? Whom are you fooling? Not God certainly!

Kenneth L. Wilson (1916-?)
Editor of The Christian Herald
 
For some of us who have been so habituated to institutional, highly structured, professionally led, building-centered Christianity, it feels like we are abandoning the Lord to so simplify our Christian walk. It has been reinforced in our psyche that “good Christians” go to church every week so we won’t be guilty of forsaking the assembling of ourselves together and so we are properly feed spiritually. Ceasing to follow that routine feels very strange at first and the churchgoers in your family will begin to express concerns about your “backsliding” when they note you aren’t going to church regularly as you once did. Those who have the church-as-a-building-with-religious-programs-you-go-to mindset cannot conceive that relaxed, simple conversation going beyond surface banter that results in everyone involved loving God and each other more deeply can be “church.”

Steven L. Rogers
 
When doctrine is carved in stone as a confession or doctrinal statement, we merely promote another man-made tradition no matter how close it is to the truth. Because if it is possible to get closer to the truth, we find out that we are tethered to someone else’s deficient understanding and can precede no closer. If we dare to break the tether, we threaten all our relationships that are still tied to it and face the trauma of breaking the communion of saints built over a lifetime. We need to tether ourselves to God’s Word unadulterated by any tradition. This would allow us to stand firm upon our convictions without necessarily having to agree on every point of doctrine.

Ross Purdy
I Will Have One Doctrine and One Discipline: The Influence of Religion and Politics on the King James Bible
 
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