Michael Servetus Quotes

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Michael Servetus

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• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Existence

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Destruction
  • Jews
  • Jewish

• Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Christianity
  • Mindless

• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Passion
  • Jesus
  • Christianity

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Important

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • War
  • Destruction
  • Murder

• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Conscious

• Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

  

  Umar
  • Love
  • Hate
  • For Her

• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Die
  • Politics
  • Politician

• He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Ends
  • Christianity
  • Ought

• In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Respect

• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

  

  James Naismith
  • Basketball
  • Invention
  • Accident

• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Person
  • Christianity

• Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Belief

• The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Algebra
  • Wreck
  • Trumpet

• On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.

  

  A. Curtiss
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Profound

• My love is inside me where my fat was.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Inside
  • Fat
  • My Love

• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Wonder
  • Beauty
  • Compare

• It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Christianity
  • Destruction
  • Invention