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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

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• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Jazz
  • Older
  • My Love

• Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Christ

• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christ
  • Face
  • Mask

• The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Christianity

• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Together

• It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Freedom
  • Relationship
  • Learn

• 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

• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hero
  • Christ
  • Author

• Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Christ
  • Anarchist

• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Time
  • Black
  • Stop

• The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • God
  • Christian

• When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Understand
  • Older

• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

  

  John Tillotson
  • Proud
  • Christ
  • Passionate

• At the coming of Christ the sons of God will be manifested by the restoration of the lost covering. Nor is it difficult to prove that the recovery of a visible glory will be the instant result of the restoration of spirit soul and body to perfect order and harmony, the sign of our manifestation as the sons of God. But it will then shine with far more intense brilliancy than it did in Adam: for, as we have before seen, the body of unfallen man was not a spiritual body. The spirit did indeed exercise a mighty and vigorous influence, but the soul was the ruling power, even as it continues to be: for the first man became a living soul.[177] But when the resurrection, or the change consequent upon our Lord’s return, takes place, our bodies will become spiritual:[178] the God-consciousness will be supreme in us, holding both soul and body in absolute control, and shedding forth the full power of its glory without let or hindrance.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • God
  • Christ
  • Coming

• Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Change
  • Slave
  • Sexes

• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  

  Ernest Seyd
  • America
  • Bill
  • Coin

• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Human

• The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

  

  George Santayana
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